
Owning Your Own Shadow


The “Shadow” is everything we don’t want to be but fear we are, represented in a single image. It’s called the Shadow because it follows us wherever we go.
Phil Stutz • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
Psychologist Carl Jung named these patterns ‘shadows’, perhaps because they pursue us wherever we go. Emotional shadow reactions broadly come in two forms — extroverted and introverted.