Tag: Shadow Work
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Day 12: Starting Off Winning
I took my mom out some flowers as a token of apology and then gave an apology to both her and my dad. I’m exhausted now, but I feel much lighter and I feel like I had the first real conversation with my parents in years. It was nice seeing the immense amount of pride…
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Day 11: Starting Off Winning
Well not so much starting off today – I was lazy and stayed in bed until I heard my son messing around in the kitchen. But I did get everything done aside from getting out of bed bed by 4:45am. I blew up at my parents last night, I realized today that it’s because I…
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Taking Ownership
Why am I doing this? And by “this” I mean discovering, wrestling with, making friends with, and/or banishing my inner demons – followed by, of course, documenting the process? The biggest reason is that I have a son, and I’ll be damned if my son is going to inherit my demons because I wasn’t man…
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Meeting My Shadow
For a very long time I’ve had a dark side – my shadow, it comes out when I’m exhausted from trying to please and take care of everyone around me. My shadow is full of resentment and anger. Anger toward who, toward what? Figuring out the targets of my shadow’s anger is the hard part…