"As we enter a new year, many people default to self-improvement narratives rooted in fixing what feels fractured, broken, or flawed. We scrutinize our "failings" and "weaknesses," set resolutions based on self-criticism, and promise to finally become "better." But what if confidence and joy don't come from fixing what's wrong, but from remembering what's already right? Here is the good news: within each of us exists a powerful, often overlooked inner resource that holds our greatest strengths, creativity, compassion, and wisdom."
""The shadow encompasses everything about ourselves that we have disowned and forgotten. It has been widely viewed as the dark side of human nature, but The Golden Shadow Method invites us to explore the positive, light side of human nature." (Ryan, 2020) The term shadow is most often associated with darkness, unresolved trauma, shame, and repressed negative emotions. While this is partially true, it represents only half the picture."
The new-year impulse to fix perceived defects overlooks an inner reservoir of strengths that already exists. The golden shadow holds suppressed strengths, creativity, compassion, and wisdom that became disowned when they were not mirrored or felt safe. The shadow includes both dark and positive elements of the unconscious, encompassing unrealized strengths and disowned positive qualities. Cultural and developmental forces can push sensitivity, creativity, leadership, intuition, and joy out of awareness rather than eradicate them. Accessing and integrating the golden shadow enables a shift from starting in deficiency to beginning from wholeness.
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