This topic fits nicely into the series around the shadow side of our lives. Ultimately, we all have a spiritual teacher–it’s that person sitting a couple of millimeters under out sternums. We spend a lot of our lives looking outside for inspiration, but that truth that we truly want and crave is within us. With […]
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I’m switching out of my shadow blogs momentarily and moving up into the vibration of awakening and those of you working with amazing instant connections. Let me dust myself off from the muddy parts of the soul. Hang on…okay. Let’s talk about this really light and beautiful thing called connection. Your Natural Connectivity Emerges When
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The first piece of writing that I did about sexuality and the shadow was very focused on you. I firmly believe that that’s where you have to start because when you’re with a partner, you really do have two shadow selves that can be at work in your joining. That complicates things, and hopefully, you
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A lot of people have this pristine version of spirituality stuck in their heads. They somehow think that it’s the option to the cleaner, safer version of life. A lot of that is just avoidance. It’s a way to avoid the crappy parts of us, and ironically enough it’s a way to get stuck in
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As I continue to delve into the shadow and ways to look at it, it’s important to look at what we’re up against. Namely, that’s the ego. In the broadest non-psychological strokes that I can use, the ego is typically all the socially acceptable (or perhaps personally acceptable) traits that we display in the world.
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