Shadow work is difficult, yet rewarding. The concept of it is simple to talk about, but the execution and consistency with it can prove challenging.

It takes taking to that “dark” side of you to make sense of those triggers. Like if someone brings up money issues with you, it can be more than just another layer of their emotional/domestic abuse. It can also be a deep awareness of how careless you’ve been with money in the past, leading you in a situation of unsettling co-dependence.

Heart-related matters that are based on your own hurtful actions to people of romantic or intimate interest, or those you’ve had official relationships with.

It can solely involve recognizing behavioral patterns that are based on negative root sources. Some friends, mostly family, there’s always a place of origin for those things you want to combat.

When the shadow part of you is left unchecked, there are risks. Lashing out in private, doing and saying things rooted in rage that, as mentioned in the last post, can leave you doing things that can’t be undone. Even more so if you bring those actions towards anyone.

They may, or outright do, deserve judgment. Even conviction and sentencing. But you don’t deserve the consequences by giving it to them another way.

That’s why it’s important to come to terms with that part of you that had to hide for so long. Taking those first steps are as difficult as the ones you’ve taken in learning other new things.

But if you’ve made to the end of this post, and have been with my blog long enough to relate to my expressions of doing the same work, then like me, you’re already on a great path.