Unfuck Your Shame by Dr. Faith G. Harper

Author:Dr. Faith G. Harper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-06-19T12:38:47+00:00

Why Shadow Work Matters

As we continue our journey into shadow work, it’s important to keep our why front and center. Because this shit is hard. It is. But everything you have been going through is even tougher. And you deserve the chance to face these issues and begin your healing.

As we know, it doesn’t work to hold your shadow hostage or deny it. Since childhood, your ability to hide your shadow is what your shadow has been counting on, so it can continue working to keep you feeling invulnerable and safe. In adulthood, however, the cost of hiding becomes too high: losing intimacy, closeness, trust, and security with others. But when we can call our shadow by name when it rises up, we can take productive and healing action.

Because healing isn’t a mechanism of self-punishment. The banishment of the shadow—an integral part of yourself—is punishment. Integration back into the whole is healing. In integration, you build ways of having more accountability in your life while lessening your suffering. You have access to so much previously lost energy to do this work.

And that healing and learning process invites us to become fully authentic human beings. We learn what we no longer need to tolerate. And we also learn tolerance that was missing in other situations because we were so busy managing the shame that would emerge when our shadow was threatened.

So how do we find that frightened shadow and coax it out into the light?

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