Today, I was having a conversation with someone about some upcoming workshop topics I’m exploring.

I shared that I had several past clients recently who reached out saying they’d be interested in coming to a series I used to offer both in person and on Zoom called, “Healing the Shadow Shamanic Journeys.”

She suggested that I offer something lighter and brighter for the summer like “Finding Your Joy.”

I believe healing your shadow is the pathway to finding your joy.

In the alchemy of healing, exploring our pain and the feelings, patterns and beliefs, which keep us stuck is actually the gateway to the emanating fields of our own greater nature.

As Rumi says so beautifully above, “darkness is your candle.”

It’s in the depths of our being where we can experience ourselves as whole and as a true embodiment of LOVE, PEACE and JOY.

I know it can be scary and we often we fear we may become lost in the dark abyss.

I know because I walked this path in my own healing journey and as a shaman guiding others over the last 20 years.

It is in our deep willingness to look at what we wish to avoid, to acknowledge what is and to hold all of it in love and compassion that we awaken and come to know our innate wholeness.

"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries." ~ Carl Jung

Would love to hear your thoughts on this…