Shadow Work to Close 2020
Happy First Day of Winter! Happy Solstice! Happy Longest Night of the Year!
We’ve reached the pinnacle of darkness for the year, and days will slowly begin to get longer. (We’re also entering the belly of Winter, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.)
You know that period between The Holidays (whichever you celebrate) and New Year’s Eve? Those few days where the party is over, you’re letting your kids play video games as long as they like while you finish off the last chocolates in the box (the strawberry and orange flavoured ones) and finish off all the cheese for lunch?
That’s the perfect time to let go of the old shit to make space for the new.
A New Era
I am told that astrologically, today is the dawn of a new era. “The Great Conjunction” - read more on the NASA site or check your favourite Astrologer if that’s in your circle of interest. Astrology is something I’m interested in, but can never make stick in my brain, so I leave it to the experts.
Here’s the thing: whether you believe in magic, or don’t; use astrology, or don’t; follow a religion, or don’t; we can all agree that this has been one motherfucker of a year, and there’s probably a lot of forced down pain, shame, guilt, bad behaviour and general blah that we’ve decided not to look at because: 2020.
When times are hard I think it’s ok to compartmentalize your pain so that you can, you know, function.
And it’s not like anything has changed, but it might be a good time to face some of that muck and start a fresh era, a new season, a new year with some clarity and acceptance and self love. What do you think? You with me? You got this!
Let’s Go!
If you haven’t yet downloaded my Me and My Shadow free shadow workbook, please go grab it. (It’s in an email dated December 1 from ubu skills if you subscribe to my newsletter, or else you can go here. Familiarize yourself with the concept of shadow work before this next step!
Here are your 2020 summation shadow work questions: “You Are So Ready For This”. Let’s really explore some of the stuff we tried to pretend didn’t happen this year. Let’s compassionately find the reasons for our shame, embarrassment, guilt, bad behaviours. There are always good reasons why this stuff happens, and we don’t always allow ourselves the opportunity to explore that.
Because other people don’t often allow us the grace to see past the bad behaviour. Because their own egos are as fragile as ours, or they don’t have good coping skills, or they also weren’t offered grace.
Let’s stop this shit right now. Can we remember that whenever ANYONE is behaviour badly, there is a reason for it?
That’s not to say that we need to accept abuse. Never accept abuse. Boundaries are absolutely essential to shadow work - as essential as trusting your intuition. But as we dig in and find love in the spaces within our subconscious where we used to chastise ourselves, we are also going to open up our hearts even deeper for those we love.
It’s really a win-win situation.
So what do you think? Are you ready to excavate? To feel better and lighter? Grab your “You Are So Ready For This” worksheet of 2020 shadow questions, and let me know how you feel after you’ve done of the journaling! Either leave a comment below, or shoot me an email.
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