Nobody gets out of life school with free passes. We all hold shadow within us, and it is our chance in this lifetime to illuminate and hopefully work through what lies latent in the bowels of our unconscious minds – to set us free and to elevate.

While light shining onto our darkness might feel frightening, vulnerable, and disarming it is inevitable and can be welcomed. Self-awareness is about casting light into the dark to evolve new ways, perspectives, and truths.

Light and dark need each other to be in a never-ending dance for growth to occur. That being said, your evolution also benefits from constraints and boundaries. We can hold onto our sovereignty, for example, while also allowing for the illumination of what is in the shadows.

We are predestined to work with light and dark as much as we are predestined to work with the boundaries between ourselves and others as a collaborative process, not a feared separation.