Intuitive Creative Expressions

If you find yourself avoiding people for seemingly no reason, you may be avoiding facing a shadow.

I know sometimes find myself avoiding people without reason. Like they seem cool but something about the interaction brings anxiety before it even begins. So I avoid it all together.

In noticing this, I decide to override my brain and take a chance. I proceed with at least a short conversation. In doing this I am able to see what emotion or fleeting thoughts come up.

In this space I realize that the interaction with them was meant to show me something within me. A reflection of a shadow that needed to be addressed. This is the importance of facing the fear and doing it anyway. Now you’re able to address something important to move forward in your journey.

This is what I mean why I say we have to feel to heal:

I finally started watching Euphoria and I just want to say the depth of the topics discussed 🤯

It triggered me to book a counseling session of my own. But I had no idea why. As I was on the phone making an appointment, a word that I wrote down on my whiteboard caught my eye. I tensed at every word the person on the phone said.

Then finally try asked why I called. As I spoke tears came to my eyes. I had no idea why. But I figured after the I did something was bound to come out. I ended up crying by the time the call ended and that wasn’t even a session lol!

Then I realized why the word I wrote down kept catching my eye.
A childhood pattern!!!
But it wasn’t even mine, it was the story I was telling myself based on the belief I had around that word. It was based on what others in my life growing up dealt with it.

I took that on as my own and ran with it, keeping the pattern alive. I wrote my heart out as I cried and I’m thankful for that moment.
For the words of “it’s ok to feel ___in my body.”
The release was cathartic and I’m thankful.

When you finally see the why behind the newfound shadow after doing “the work.” 😊