Walking With Shadow

Jhada Addams

01 Feb 2025 — 1 min read

Acknowledging, getting curious about and integrating the Shadow

I’ve been doing some pretty intense shadow work since the pandemic hit. I’ve gone through so many perspective shifts that I honestly can’t recognize who I was before. I can only look back and feel compassion for how lost and deeply uncurious I had become in the monotonous search for a partner. It was all I thought about. It was an obsession. It IS embarrassing to look back on, and I have to remember to go gently with myself. Healing takes time, and the body responds best to kindness and opens on yes. I’m learning so much.

At 57, I feel as though I’ve been going through a succession of initiatory gauntlets - and I’m finally engaging them and acing them.

There’s still a LOT that needs addressing and engaging, and I’m doing that work. With as toxic as the world has become, being kind, compassionate and loving is punk as fuck.

This is me being Punk As Fuck.

Welcome to my journey.

There is a medieval style text ribbon behind a goat that has a red glowing heart floating just above its hands - the text reads, "I will commit the sin of Empthy."

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