Syconium Healing Practice
Integrate your Shadow
ShadoWork starts with reflection, to cultivate curiousity with your Inner World.
Journalling creates space for your voice to be heard and create a positive loop of self-validation, to become your own attachment figure.
To start journalling, ensue you have a journal you enjoy writing in, a pen you love to write with, and a set-aside time each day - even 3 minutes.
Journalling is more about sitting with a question than arriving at an answer so even pondering a journal prompt on your commute is "journalling".
Write without censoring yourself, unfiltered. If it helps, you can always rip out the pages after writing - it is the writing, the self-admittance that is cathartic.
If you're a creative type, I recommend an oath NOT to use journal prompts for the sake of public consumption until your body gives you permission. And it will.
Journal Prompts
Shadow Self
Shadow with Others
Collective Shadow
The Collective Shadow
The collective shadow is comprised of the things we are afraid of, the things we are in denial of, the things we have repressed as a culture. We are taught to repress the parts of our Selves that hold the most potent power so we become afraid of our Selves & our desires.
Sex
Money
Anger
Death
Trauma-Informed ShadoWork
Integrating wholeness at the pace of your body
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
Carl Jung
“There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.”
Marion Woodman
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell