Light Work
- Keren Levi-Faran
- Dec 31, 2024
- 2 min read
What you tucked away
It might still be holding you
You don’t need to wrestle your darkness into light
You don’t need to fix every flaw
Or silence every doubt
You only need to begin noticing
The parts of you that wait
Not to be erased
But to be seen
As part of the whole
Behind the Curtain
In Jungian psychology
The shadow is everything we learn to conceal to belong
Not because it was wrong
But because it once felt risky to reveal
Your ambition
Your anger
Your neediness
Your hunger for attention
These aren’t shameful
They are stories
Unfinished
Misunderstood
And what do we exile
Doesn’t disappear
It simply directs us
From the dark
The Gentle Torch
Shadow work doesn’t mean acting on every impulse
It means listening
Noticing what you flinch from
And asking why
The goal isn’t perfection
It’s presence
You are allowed to hold your contradictions
Without splitting in two
You are permitted to light the place you once abandoned
And call it home again
Questions to Reflect On
What emotion do I try hardest to control or explain away
Where am I afraid to be too much
What might soften if I stopped judging and started listening
What part of me is still waiting
To be met with warmth
Until you make the unconscious conscious
It will direct your life
And you will call it fate
Carl Jung
You don’t need to solve the shadow
Only turn toward it
And ask
What has it been holding for me
Not every part wants a spotlight
Some just want to be known
As part of your wholeness
Not as proof that you failed
The parts you pushed away
Are often the ones that stay closest to you
You’re invited to meet them with care
Download the practice
Meeting the Light
And begin with the gentlest question
What have I not allowed myself to see
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