She is happy being alone. She is busy with shadow work.
Facing her hidden triggers, her demons every day, and not blaming them for being bad…..
They are real. They are her. She brings them out in the open without waiting for a trigger.
It’s her life. It’s her portmanteau.
Two sides struggling to unite and dispel the darkness….
Reena Saxena 
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his Shadow Work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.
~~Carl Jung
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Thanks for sharing Carl Jung’s quote.
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Well done, Reena. Using the prompt metaphorically worked well for you. I enjoyed it.
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Thank you, Bill!
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Reblogged this on OPENED HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Awesomely written! Such a concise description of shadow work. I really had no idea what a portmanteau is.
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Thank you, Astrid! I googled the word too.
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Oh haha I’m so glad. English is my second language and I was thinking I must be rather dumb. Then again, I guess the word portmanteau originates in French.
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That is what I gather from the internet.
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The word sums up her situation perfectly.
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Thank you, Keith!
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Quite beautiful. Two sides struggling to unite…oh let there be light to see the truth.
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Amen!
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“Not blaming them for being bad” —- very important work. Excellent use of the prompt word. 🙏
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Thanks a ton!
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light to dark
is a homer leaving the park
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Wow! Great use of the prompt.
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome Reena
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