The pieces of yourself
That are the most painful to look at
You know, the “dark” ones
The sad ones
The “I’m not enough ones”
Are the pieces that need to be
Sat with. Loved. Nourished. Accepted. Integrated.
Those are the missing pieces
Of your puzzle
You see we fragment
At an early age
Somewhere around 8 years old
We start to adapt to get love
Or protect ourselves
We were too young to really process
Everything we were going through
So we learn to suppress
The pieces that weren’t accepted
And learn our emotions aren’t safe
We grow up and turn into adults
Who have molded to what society expects
Rather than growing into ourselves
And when we finally reconnect and remember
These parts of ourselves
We are scared
Because we have so long disconnected with them
We hoped they had died off
Swept under the rug
Of the masks we wear
But the pain we experience is also the medicine
And this message isn’t meant to scare you
But you’re ready to hear it
Or else you wouldn’t still be reading.
We call this Shadow Work
Inner child work
And it’s a painful, miraculous process
That guides you back
To wholeness.