Who Am I?
My New Slant On The 3 Card Past, Present, Future Spread
For better or worse, attending therapy means doing an awful lot of navel-gazing and trying to peel back layers in the search for truth. One of the biggest truths I have been groping for is probably the same one as many other people — who am I? The honest answer is that I don’t know. I know who I’d like to be but I have no idea how close I am to reaching that goal.
One of the issues I have is that I know I still have a lot of therapy and also shadow work to do. In case you’ve never heard the term shadow work, it was coined by the psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to the site Better Up:
Shadow work involves exploring and integrating the unconscious aspects of oneself, such as repressed emotions, fears, and desires, to achieve personal growth and wholeness. We all have traits that we’re proud of, and traits that we don’t feel so confident about. Some of these traits may trigger or embarrass us, so we hide them from public view. These parts make up your shadow self, and it longs to be heard.
Elizabeth Perry, AAC. Better Up site
I feel like I’ve been doing exactly that. All the trauma from my past, my frustration at being socially awkward and unable to form friendships, my anger, and everything else I didn’t want to deal with has been…
