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‘What my nervous system learned was that I should feel shameful, embarrassed and weird about the fact that going to the beach, I wanted to read my book and not do the same things as the other kids. This was something undesirable and weird about me’, she adds.
‘I would start to suppress those parts of myself. In social situations where previously maybe I brought my book, I would force myself to either not bring my book or try and force myself to participate in things that I didn’t want to do.’‘When we’re talking about deeply traumatic experiences or chronic exposure to people shaming you, this Shadow Self, this suppressed part of you gets bigger and gets embedded deeper into your nervous system and your psyche’, Dozzyy explains.
‘Often when we express anger, rage, grief or sadness about these parts being suppressed, we are told that those emotions are not positive and we should not feel them, and that being angry is a sign of emotional immaturity or an undisciplined mind. ‘Shadow Work allows us to reclaim these parts of ourselves and to actually experience safety while having emotions like anger, grief and rage which are really important for healing.’
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