As we said in our last blog, we believe anger is always motivated by love. Love of ourselves or others and a desire to protect ourselves or others, or to enable ourselves or others to move forward and live a rich fulfilling life with integrity and honesty. Think for the last time you were angry — what were you wanting to protect yourself from? Or what rights were you wanting to stand up for? Or what was being blocked that you wanted to move towards?
In Healing The Shadow we believe anger is always motivated by love. Love of ourselves (or another) and a desire to protect ourselves (or another), or to enable ourselves (or others) to move forward and live a rich fulfilling life with integrity and honesty. Think of the last time you were angry –‐ who were you wanting to protect?
In our culture anger tends to get a pretty bad press. Indeed, repressed or out of control anger can cause harm both physically and emotionally and can permanently damage relationships. There are obvious and important reasons for these types of anger to be feared, we must not overlook them or take them lightly. However, I want to start this blog by celebrating healthy anger. In Healing The Shadow we believe pure anger, like any other emotion, is a force for good, and has deep wisdom behind it. Continue Reading
Welcome to this blog exploring the shadow.
This site contains articles discussing all aspects of the human shadow and looks at different ways we can discover, explore and heal our shadow.