day 26: what parts of yourself are you ashamed of? what does your shadow self look like?
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Discussing what I'm ashamed of feels redundant at this point because I play that game weekly. And quite honestly, it's played out... I remember self-deprecation being acceptable during my late teenage years. It was embraced and comfortable in a way. Alas, years passed and something in the atmosphere shifted & now The Collective We™ are into self-care + self-love + self-improvement. So that really lightens up my pity parties I host during episodes of shame spiraling.
"The 'shadow' is a concept first coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress. For one reason or another, we all have parts of ourselves that we don’t like—or that we think society won’t like—so we push those parts down into our unconscious psyches. It is this collection of repressed aspects of our identity that Jung referred to as our shadow self. (Jack E. Othon, August 2020)"
Who I've repressed reminds me of this excerpt from In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney (2016):
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