Although we want to disown our troublesome parts of ourselves, they frequently express something important. The rage we push away, for example, may simply want respect or safety. The addictive impulse might actually be a quest for deeper meaning. The shadow’s seemingly negative behavior encodes a message: an unmet need, a forgotten spark of creativity, or a repressed longing for closeness. In shadow work, we learn to decode these messages rather than blindly act them out.
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