Don’t Skip Shadow Day 🕯️

“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” — Groucho Marx

I used to think healing was supposed to feel... beautiful.

Soft energy. Peaceful meditations. Positive mantras and open hearts.
And sometimes, it is those things.

But the parts that changed me…
The real growth…

That happened in silence.
In shame.
In nights where I couldn’t look in the mirror without flinching.

"Spiritual growth isn’t ‘love and light.’
It’s courageously welcoming your darkness."

It happened when I faced the part of myself I’d spent years exiling:
The jealous one.
The avoidant one.
The one who could manipulate, resent, punish.

That part didn’t need to be "loved and lighted."
It needed to be witnessed.
It needed to be understood.
It needed me to stop pretending I was further along than I really was.

Spirituality without responsibility becomes performance.
But when it’s real, it pulls you into the underworld.

Not to shame you.

To teach you.

Because your shadow isn’t a mistake.
It’s the part of you that holds the truth you weren’t safe enough to express.

Until now.

These small notes arrive quietl…