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There’s a BIG epiphany about shadow work I don’t see many people talking about- so I’m gonna ask the question myself:
What if the shadow is just our INNER CHILD?
It’s unsexy LOL but this perspective lets shadow work actually work. It lets us peer into our psyche, discover the demons are…precious children!
The inner child has been starved of belonging, worth, and it begs you to keep it richly resourced in Love.
But you’ve not been feeding it.
You’ve been confronting ‘shadow’ like it’s something ugly, taboo, dangerous, demonic. All high drama of the mind! (The mind is powerful as fuck- it can even create dualistic realities out of this stuff.)
Drama is exciting and might make us feel powerful if we ‘face’ it, but it doesn’t touch the core of our worth, light, and belonging.
If we ONLY understand the shadow as dark, dangerous, erotic, or taboo we may become addicted to ‘battling the dark’ or ‘glorifying power’ as an escape. We are not really doing any shadow work, but still avoiding ourself, neglecting ourself, and abandoning ourself (at sexier levels.)
We are fueling a fire instead of feeding a baby. We MISS a great opportunity to nurture, and nourish the hurt, scared inner child within.
Seeing your shadow as your inner child helps you see other people’s shadow the same way.
EVERYONE you know who lashes out at you, blames you, criticizes you, or annoys you is expressing their own hurt child. They’ve neglected it for YEARS, locked it away in the dark.
What if the monster you fear is just a baby?
What if the snake that hisses at you turns out to be a rope?
What if ‘evil’ is just fear afraid to look itself in the mirror?
What if the demon is a starved child?
What if the shadow is not SEPARATE from you?
To really KNOW this requires perceiving power at the level of the heart- looking at people’s hurt inner child with compassion. Realize they can only love you as much as they’ve turned inward and asked “What does my inner child need?” and provided it to themselves.
Shadow work helps us resource more of this love for ourselves and others. If you’d like to explore it further, come see me about working 1-1 together: The Lion’s Edge and Inner King.
xo,
Tara
A lovely insight to have arrived at and considering we're in Spooky Season now, very appropriate. Awesome essay and love how you're framing the fluidity of inner work Tara.
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