Get up Show up as your authentic and aligned self

Sometimes the easiest thing to do is forget who we truly are. We see ourselves through the lenses of others. We take on board their thoughts and opinions of us especially if these are negative. It takes 7 positive statements to undo the harm of one negative comment. This is because we are programmed to survive. It's why we notice a mess, the things out of the ordinary. 

We are survivors. We grow and we learn, we create shadow selves that are the behaviors and desires we have learned to hide, the parts of us that are not deemed acceptable. These are the parts of us that we see mirrored in others.

The parts that make us dislike or feel threatened. We trigger others as much as they trigger us. 

" Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected. "

Psychology and Religion ( 1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.131 Carl Jung 

Understanding and integrating your shadow is one of the most powerful acts you do for yourself. It is a vital part of battling addictions, of being a better person.

Stripping away the layers to the inner core and joining up all aspects of yourself is a hard and painful journey and has to be revisited as we grow and develop deeper understandings of ourself. 

This work and even the pre-contemplation stage allows us to get up and start showing up as our true selves, the person we should have been before the world and other shaped us. 

Please contact for information on courses being run on shadow work.