Your Shadow Is Your Superpower
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
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- The shadow is not limited to the functional stack . It includes any psychological content that is repressed, whether it relates to cognitive functions, emotions, or other personal traits.
- It represents the unconscious "dark side" of the psyche but is not inherently bad. It can contain valuable qualities that have been suppresse
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Jung explained that our shadow constitutes the parts of ourselves we reject or avoid looking at because these aspects don’t fit with the way we’d like to see ourselves. He explained that we each have in us the forces for the greatest good and also the greatest evil. We have the potential to commit the same horrible atrocities that we see in the wor
... See moreJude Star • The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights from Depth Psychology
“the shadow is the person you would rather not be.”
Deborah Ford • The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
Whereas the ego weaves together the world, the shadow unravels the world. Whereas the ego acts as a catalyst of creation in the world, the shadow acts as a catalyst of destruction. Whereas the ego supports the status quo, the shadow is an agent of transformation.
Steven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow
The shadow is everything within us that is unconscious, undeveloped or denied. It is what poet Robert Bly called “the long black bag” we carry around with us. The bag is black because its contents are unseen by the conscious mind, and it is long because it contains everything we are.