Embrace Your Shadow - Issue 69 - 9th July 2023

Carl Jung said “everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it” (3). Our shadow sides are those parts of us that we are most frightened to confront. It’s that traumatic event in our past that we store away in a locked cupboard in the dusty attic of our minds. However the contents of that cupboard do not simply gather dust like old records, but they fester, they grow wounds that infect the cupboard and eventually after years of rejection the attic falls through the house.