Good & Bad
One of my favorite aspects of shadow Work is being able to transform my perspective on those parts about myself that I’ve always seen as “ bad”. Because in reality I am just human. And all humans have feelings of jealousy of fear, of an adequacy of resentment. This is just a part of our human experience.
I want to share with you a quote out of a book called when things fall apart by Pema Chödrön.
“ we are trying to learn not to split ourselves between our “good side” and our “ bad side”, between our “ pure side” and our “ impure side”. The elemental struggle is with our feelings of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are. That’s what we have to be friend. The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this, and that, between here and there, by moving toward what we find difficult and wish to push away.”
That’s what it means to lean in. To not run away when things feel scary or hard or uncertain, to run towards yourself instead.
