I am beginning to think the goal is not to eliminate the shadow. Rather, I must create a place for this shadow to live and be transformed. The shadow’s fleeting nature reveals a deep fear of exposure – which is something that I struggle with enormously myself. To expel that shadow is to expel a part of my own nature...
Finally, after encouragement and personal sharing from our leaders, we wrote down self-compassion statements. This one is mine. I wrote it to be read slowly, with a pause after each line, in the rhythm of one breathing in and out...
The last few months have marked a sea change in my life. No specific event has stirred the waters – rather, it has been an appropriate, gentle, and natural reversal of my own magnetic poles. A new season has arrived, one that has allowed me to bring forth that which I hold inside
