Shadow Work & Inner Child Healing
Learning to show up for ourselves in all the places we once abandoned. Becoming the healing salve for our own wounds.
Walking into our shadows to reunite with the scared child living there requires community, acceptance & perseverance. It can feel deep, vulnerable and scary — and we’ve been trained to think we’ll never reemerge if we allow ourselves to face it.
We’ve been taught to run and suppress, so the shadows created look Much Scarier than what is truly there – our self. Young. Sacred. Abandoned.
Singularly focused on inner reunion.
Calling on the divine within us to ‘re-parent’ our wounds.
Bringing our own healing salve to our wounds because no one else can do this for us – no matter the role they once played.
We all need community support, guidance and methods we can trust to help us back to the light when it seem lost (We’ve got you.. keep going.)
What Is Shadow?
Technically, a shadow forms when light interacts with particles dense enough that it does not pass through, creating a darker reflection of whatever is blocking the light.
Energetically, shadows are created within us when traumatic experience causes us to conceal a piece of our light— locking it in a ‘safe’ space within our subconscious.
We’ve been led to believe our shadows are scary.
In truth, our shadows are where we suppressed our light, which is always seeking acceptance, reunion and expression.
Healing Our Inner Child
We have also been led to believe that confronting our shadow requires reliving trauma, the ‘feel it to heal it’ dogma, or learning to overpower it. NOT TRUE.
Shadow work Does require the vulnerability to meet our inner child in the moments of damage and Show Up as our own healing salve, simply being present and loving.
In taking on this kind of practice, we learn to lean in to self-acceptance, situational acceptance, we can start to feel grounded in ourselves and plant seeds of enduring self love.
Retraining The Brain
(This is just as much of the ascension process as our shadow and inner child, so I can’t leave it out!)
Essentially, our thoughts are like rivers in the brain, the more time we spend on a thought, the more deeply the euro pathway of that thought is, the more subsidiaries it has the opportunity to create. We have the power to make changes to it — as our bodies are divine operating systems for our soul.
The term neuroplasticity has taken on a personal meaning
as scientists like Joe Dispenza and others make mind-heart coherence a commonly known science.
Meditation & mental awareness training
shifts our brain patterns.
Meditation creates space within so we can step back from thoughts and feelings to see them from different angles than the triggered inner child that rushes in first.
Meditation is healing to the nervous system, which is key to being able hold your shifts and sustain your energy.
Becoming Present to what is present gives us the opportunity to heal our trauma & negative cycles.
(Step one: self kindness!)
