Our shadows aren’t the enemy. Our resistance is...

When we flee our shadow, we flee ourselves. It's not all light in there, of that we can be sure. And that shadow that we fled with all our might, doesn't go away. It waits around the next bend to trip us up and to remind us that it wants to be seen. Not because it wants us to suffere, but because it wants us to heal. Because it wants us to grow. Our shadows aren't the enemy. Our resistance is. - Jeff Brown

When you rech a stage where you can have a very dark and diffcult experience, without having to look on the " bright side, " then you know that you have made progress on your healing journey. Because one significant measure of our emotional health, is our capacity to tolerate all of our experiences without jumping to reactive reframes. You reach a stage where you can stretch to accomodate the truth of your lived experience. You have enough light inside, to own the shadow. And enough shadow inside, to own the light. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations