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6/24/2025, 10:36:42 PM
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>Jungian shadow work
I'm going to be honest, I'm not really the best person to ask about whether or not you're doing it "right" - I did most of it before I had even heard the term, some subconsciously*, and then once I did I was like, "huh, that sounds an awful lot like what I did".
(*Subconsciously due to a very specific set of factors that isn't really replicable)
But I can try to give a bit more info.
First, this blog post series as a good intro to how I now view it, though you may need to adapt it to the female experience.
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/we-are-all-monsters
(His other two blogs are quite interesting too imho)
My own issues I had to deal with were being extremely controlling and neurotic, and a loathing of my appearance and gender/sexuality. Both of which I can now (a decade later) understand are probably autism spectrum issues. These were things that I was kind of aware of, but wasn't aware of why, and consciously rejected. I was basically forced by life to acknowledge the toxicity embedded in both of those. It's a part of me, and by rejecting it (and emotion in general) I was forcing it into the shadow, where it festered and became feral and only came out in intimate relationships. By acknowledging it as part of me I can limit the damage.
The issue (as the blog article suggests) is that for most people it's not always particularly obvious what those things are. I was, in a sense, lucky because I had them literally thrown in my face at a time that was ripe for me to deal with them. For someone else, you'd have to look at your life and history of interactions with people and see where those issues crop up and identify them, and figure out where they come from and why.
It's an ongoing process (which I haven't worked on in a while) and I honestly haven't had a chance to test it in any substantial manner, so I don't even know how successful I was.
>Jungian shadow work
I'm going to be honest, I'm not really the best person to ask about whether or not you're doing it "right" - I did most of it before I had even heard the term, some subconsciously*, and then once I did I was like, "huh, that sounds an awful lot like what I did".
(*Subconsciously due to a very specific set of factors that isn't really replicable)
But I can try to give a bit more info.
First, this blog post series as a good intro to how I now view it, though you may need to adapt it to the female experience.
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/we-are-all-monsters
(His other two blogs are quite interesting too imho)
My own issues I had to deal with were being extremely controlling and neurotic, and a loathing of my appearance and gender/sexuality. Both of which I can now (a decade later) understand are probably autism spectrum issues. These were things that I was kind of aware of, but wasn't aware of why, and consciously rejected. I was basically forced by life to acknowledge the toxicity embedded in both of those. It's a part of me, and by rejecting it (and emotion in general) I was forcing it into the shadow, where it festered and became feral and only came out in intimate relationships. By acknowledging it as part of me I can limit the damage.
The issue (as the blog article suggests) is that for most people it's not always particularly obvious what those things are. I was, in a sense, lucky because I had them literally thrown in my face at a time that was ripe for me to deal with them. For someone else, you'd have to look at your life and history of interactions with people and see where those issues crop up and identify them, and figure out where they come from and why.
It's an ongoing process (which I haven't worked on in a while) and I honestly haven't had a chance to test it in any substantial manner, so I don't even know how successful I was.
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