This week we’re talking about the darkness and light inside of us. We will be looking at ways to acknowledge our shadow-selves. Not just acknowledge, why it’s worth the effort to embrace your shadow and unleash its power! Darkness and light. You hear it all the time, that we’re made up of both. I think the best visual representative of that is the yin and yang symbol. Black and white. Each has a dot of the other inside. Balanced. Perfect. Visually pleasing.

Why does darkness or specifically, shadow get such a bad rap?  It’s weird because when I make art, I need shadows AND light to define shape. Both are of equal importance, there’s no value judgment. So, why do we judge darkness and light attributes of ourselves differently?

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Wild Mind, a field guide to the human psyche by Bill Plotkin

Shadow-Self article, Lonerwolf

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