Apostate Son returns…to his Book of Shadows

It's crazy to think that it's been almost ten years since i last posted. Shortly after my last post, I got into a relationship, and one of the things that occured is that I quit writing, not only here, but writing in general. I didn't feel comfortable writing my thoughts, dealing with my issues, airing my own dirty laundry. I wasn't told not to write, I don't even know if he knew I was blogging before we got together, but something about our interactions kept me from writing. Since then I realized that I must walk away from that relationship, that it wasn't a healthy relationship to be in. I have spent alot of time thinking since then, and realized how therapeutic the act of writing was for me, as well as the fact that I was using writing to help heal me from past issues, and to create my future. As I thought about the therapeutic core of my writing I found several videos about shadow work. It seemed like an interesting concept, so I dove in. It seems that although shadow work has been a thing since the dawn of man, Carl Yung was the guy who coined the term. His idea was that a child, when encouraged to suppress a part of their personality because it is unacceptable according to their formative authorities, the act of suppression has created of that part of the personality a shadow, which is pushed down and not allowed to be expressed because if it is expressed the child will not be loved. In light of that, our shadow is a coping mechanism designed to hide the things that we are and we desire that would not be accepted in our social circle. I have decided to start doing shadow work, I had decided to call this series of posts my Book of shadows, but after rereading my original posts I have come to realize that this entire blog is my book of shadows...not in the occult sense, no spells or rituals, but in the frame of reference of yungian psychology. Secrets deep and dark, some good, some not... will be exposed. changes will occur.