It’s easy to see the evil and devilish ways of those outside of you as separate from yourself
It’s easy to judge and to spend hours sharing about how horrible “they” are
What isn’t so easy is taking a hard look at your own shadow
What isn’t as fun is opening to the aspect of self that takes the form of a scary beast inside you
Choosing to look at your own shadow and where you show up messy, untidy, hateful, uncivilized and shame-filled will not be as popular
And it is necessary
Even though your outrage is honored
And it can create powerful action
But, if outage is infused with your own unhealed shadow, trauma and deepest shame… you will be projecting
You will be adding to the unhealed collective unconscious
You will be fighting a battle outside of you that you can never win because you haven’t honored the battle raging within
You might say, “but they are doing the unthinkable…”
You might say, “but I want to focus on love, light and gratitude…”
You might say, “I will never forgive…”
You might blame and shame them
And your health will suffer as you sit in judgment and resentment
Within your exhaustion, it is time to look at the underbelly of your own soul
To really look
And that requires that you take moments of quiet with no distraction to Listen
Seek help from someone who does this shadow work with folks, like me or someone else you deeply trust
Someone who will hold the mirror to your subconscious mind: the part of you that you cannot see on your own
You will not be capable of holding the enormous love, light and graciousness that is required to create change
if you have never held and then integrated the part of your psyche that embodies your shadowy aspects
When you find yourself pointing fingers to outside forces, let it serve as reminder that there is work to do on you
Your shadow work won’t be as easy as focusing on them and making them wrong
But it will be an initiation into a liberating love where you are whole
This doesn’t mean you don’t speak up!
It means you speak up MORE while you do MORE of the personal life reviews at the same time
The collective is mirroring our internal landscape
We have work to do
Read that again
The collective pain mirrors our individual pain
It’s time to see this so you can
Alchemize your deepest suffering and challenges
You can transmute your deeply human-lower-self, hard ass lessons into something New
New life and a New Earth come from taking full ownership of The Collective Trauma
We are in this together
Not because we said so
But because we are willing to root self love into our own soul so deeply that it will create permanent change in the world around us
Love you
ALL OF YOU
-Renee
Photo: Gabriela McGill
