Facing our Shadow for more creativity, authentic power and purpose

"One of the most challenging parts of the critic in the Shadow is the inner critic.

“When your inner critic has completely taken over, and you don't have the clarity to trust yourself, this becomes a significant spiritual crisis." Caroline Myss (from her video on The Critic below).

(Photo: Rachel Weisz as twin gynecologists in Dead Ringers. This image reminded of how disparaging and dismissive our inner talk can be.)

Caroline Myss comments:

"The shadow has many definitions. I think the best one, one of the most effective ones is to think of the shadow as the parts of yourself that you don't know much about that circumstances in life activate so that you can find out a lot about [them] … The shadow is neither good nor bad.”