My fascination with all things dark and shadowy began at my birth. Born blue and not breathing, I was resuscitated and placed in a humicrib, separated from my mother. This disruption to my attachment bond sent my orientation reflex into hyperdrive, and began my desperate search to reconnect with my life-supporting mothership.
Many of my coaching clients report difficulty with using the word “no”. Sometimes it’s because they have trouble hearing it and other times it’s because they have trouble saying it. Does this sound familiar?
In a previous blog, I explained how anger can be viewed as a secondary emotion—that it serves as a signal to inform us that we are emotionally upset and that we ought to look deeper for an underlying emotion. I suggested that the most common underlying primary emotions are hurt, fear and frustration. If we look under our anger, we will usually find one of these.
There’s an emerging conversation echoing from deep within the vast realm of the human psyche. Humans are evolving and awakening into our destiny of becoming truly self-realised beings. This monumental process, though, requires us to undergo a thorough self-examination and complete the task of integrating the opposing light and dark parts of our personality.