Reclaiming your suppressed gifts & Self

What have you cast into shadow?

What needs to be reclaimed from the shadow, so you can fully express your authentic Self in this lifetime?

If we go back to your upbringing – wherever that happened, however it happened, with whoever was around – I bet that, at some point or another…

… some aspect of your True Self was deemed unacceptable by someone else. Maybe it was a parent. Maybe a peer. Maybe a teacher, or some other authority figure.

Whoever this person was, they told you: “this part of your True Self is not acceptable; you need to be different; you need to fit in.”

The outside world let you know, for some reason or another, this natural aspect of you wasn’t ok.

Maybe you were told “you’re too much”, “you’re too intense”, “you need to be more (or less!) outgoing”, “you’re too sensitive”, etc, etc.

As a result, you cast that aspect of your authentic Self into shadow. You suppressed it, hid it, pretended it no longer existed. (You didn’t do this on purpose – but just to try to fit in, survive, stay safe, cope with the world. Understandable.)

So often, these aspects of your True Self that have been relegated to the shadow are your most brilliant, powerful, Soul-level gifts, passions, talents, and wisdom… the VERY things you’re here to share and express with others.

On the journey of awakening and inner revolution, we must find those aspects of ourselves and bring them fully back into the light… by reclaiming, using, and embodying them now.

We must also SHED the “false self” or persona we’ve created to try to fit in, stay safe, and avoid rejection. (This false self is based on who we think we have to be, as opposed to Who We Really Are.)

As you withdraw effort & energy from keeping that “false self” alive, you can nourish your alignment with your True Self and live your authentic purpose here.

In a bonus episode of my INNER REVOLUTION podcast series, we’ll talk about:

• how & why we lose touch with our True Self
• how & why you may have disavowed, suppressed, and cast certain aspects of your True Self – your true desires, passions, needs, traits – into shadow
• how & why we create a “false self” to survive in the world… and how we can make ourselves sick (literally!) pouring energy and effort into keeping this “false self” alive
• beginning to reclaim your brilliant gifts and authentic Self

You can listen to this episode here: What have you cast into shadow?

Please let me know how it lands by leaving a comment below!

With love,
Josephine