“The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love and as I change my thoughts, the world around me changes; the past is over and has no power now.”      — Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life  I first discovered the shadow as a young child. I didn't understand what it was, but I knew it was there, creating confusion about whether I was a good person or not. By age 20, I was searching for answers and fortunately found a Jungian-trained therapist who helped me begin understanding the shadow. Years of self-discovery have taught me that freedom comes from bringing the unconscious into consciousness and allowing the conditioned identity we have mistaken...

When you feel overwhelmed and over react to a life event(s) with intense and over whelming emotion that event represents an emotional trigger for you. Occasional over reaction to emotional triggers can be accommodated by your nervous system, but on going over reaction which chronically activates your ‘fight or flight’ response can effectively result in feelings of narcissistic self abuse. In other words you become a victim of your own self abuse. Narcissistic Self Abuse Why I characterize this chronic pattern of over reaction as a type of narcissistic self abuse is because the over reactive response is characterized as an over inflated sense of self importance. You see everything that is happening as happening only to you. Such chronic...