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For this week's thoughtful Purpose nudge, I'd like to bring your attention to your Shadows.
Honestly, I think we are all innocent children learning how to be innocent again.
How can we be more accepting of ourselves?
Do you remember what it was like when you were small and innocent?
Do you remember when you were told you were doing something wrong when you did not feel it was wrong in any way?
OR
When you witnessed someone else doing something wrong (that you felt was truly wrong), but couldn't do anything about it?
Remember how confusing it was in those moments of feeling wronged and shamed or having to re-arrange your own inner feelings of right and wrong according to those around you?
As children, we are forced to rearrange our outlook on life in order to survive, to be loved and to be accepted by our tribe, our family, our community, for better or worse.
This molds our minds in deep, dark places that we feel ashamed to go to now for fear of being embarrassed, outcast, unvalidated.
These places are called shadows and allude us until we are blessed with opportunities from life to uncover them.
For example, I know a woman in her 60's who, by her own opinion has had the most perfect life and has never needed therapy or meditation. On the outside, she seems to have it all together, yet suddenly she started having intense, debilitating panic attacks and is being forced to look more deeply within for the answers.
Shadows can also lurk as self-criticisms or criticisms of others - like about our appearance, our bank accounts, our relationship status, our success, our sexual nature, our families and our past.
There is always more to uncover.
My dear you are coming to a time when the masks and self judgements have to come down in order to move forward.
As you do more of this, you create more choices that make a huge difference in your reality. Are you ready to walk this path? In what ways are you already walking it? In what ways are you hiding from it or ignoring it?
If you would like to learn more about working with your shadows in an inclusive and fun way, check out Existential Kink, by Carolyn Elliot.
Thanks for being a part of this community and talk soon,
Ashley
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