We all have a “Shadow” which is created out of the “Wounds'' life throws at us.
It can be a dark shadow which follows us around, taunting us, playing with our emotions and never letting go, some wounds are so entrenched in our memory and eats away at us, and no matter how hard we try to beat our emotions, in hard times they return and bite us hard. Often those distant memories stem right back to childhood, and can make us fearful for a lifetime, they are embedded in our very soul.
But then we have the light shadow which is full of warmth and joy, and that is the shadow we should concentrate on which is easier said than done, but it's important to at least try.
I have walked through many rocky pathways, many were disastrous to my wellbeing but a few enriched my very being, and those are the ones to remember. But the human condition never lets us forget how arduous part of our journey has been. And i am working on connecting with my light shadow it won't be easy but it's important to give it my best shot.🤩
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Like I said earlier on when I look back on things that felt like the end of the world when they struck I feel that by accident I was stopped from making a big mistake when they didn't happen!
I feel I was sent down to Trade St this morning to thank my lucky and astute stars that I never got that apartment there as I would have hated it!
Best of luck connecting with your light shadow. Although I agree that what you call our dark shadow is embedded in our soul, still I think we can also shift our dark shadow towards the light, and even possibly become free. I recently read Red Sister by Mark Lawrence. I don't read much fantasy and I'm not sure whether I enjoyed it but I liked how characters in the novel could cut off their shadow. When initially cut off the shadow might temporarily provide some assistance but eventually it would just sort of wander off forever.
This afternoon at swimming one of my friends there says she has been through emotional child abuse as well the same as I have and how she was shouted at all the time growing up by her parents same as I was and called names which is childish and nowadays hates being shouted at!
It's bad isn't it how child psychological abuse isn't uncommon and it's extremely damaging as well!
Many years ago I was in my 20s and was living in Roath and got a job at a place a few minutes down the road, worked at those offices for a few months until they relocated the offices and when this happened it brought back memories of when I was 11 and the family moved and how I had felt extremely angry over this and those angry feelings came back to haunt me when that happened of feeling helpless and the unfairness of it all and whilst I worked there they festered like an untreated wound and the slightest little thing would bring up a load of anger and resentment as it reminded me of the unfair way I was treated as a kid but at the time I didn't understand why I felt so strongly!
Lovely post secrets. I've understood about the dark shadow but never consided the light shadow.
I wish you all the best in moving into the light shadow and connecting with the warmth and joy you mention.
You deserve happiness and owe it to yourself.
Hasn't the weather been foul today? The rain is travelling east to west for a change and we are currently visiting relatives in the southeast and got absolutely drenched today!
It's not very nice here either so I set off nice and early to my 10.30 interview and have settled in in a cafe across the road and I will nip across to the offices when it's time and give it my very best!
I have done my daily quota of job applications nice and early so that's out of the way for the rest of the day!
After the interview we are off to the cinema and for lunch out to see the new beetlejuice film.
Yesterday afternoon after swimming I was getting the bus back home and the phone went and it was a place wanting to put me on the spot and with confidence I told them no nows not a good time which wasn't lies as a bus queue isn't the time or the place for that nonsense and they asked when could they ring me back and I said I would ring when I had 5 minutes free, put the phone down and let it go!
Should I really really have nothing better to do then I will ring them which I think is a fair deal!
With respect though those things aren't emergencies and can wait!
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You can never recover from an illness you don't have.
Despite all the bad in this world
WE AREN'T LICKED YET !
we all deserve 
I am working on creating a more positive life and this is what its looking like 
