doing shadow work means uncovering the memories your brain has spent years throwing dirt over ... it’s not easy work and no one ever said it would be. sometimes it means looking back at the things you most desperately want to forget, and then sitting with it. to see how it —

— affected you in the long term. it means going back to that place that made you feel so small, so scared, so hurt or whatever the case .. and metaphorically sitting in that space, and acknowledging everything you never allowed yourself to feel, because you were too busy trying —

— to forget it or move past it - this isn’t a bad thing, this is how we cope and how we maintain our sanity especially if the trauma happens at a young age we simply have no idea how to healthily process it. so now as adults we have to go back to it and do our best to heal it.