Everyone who is anyone Has a shadow- it’s literally like the stuff of life.

No shadow, not of this realm was the gist growing up.

But these days?”Shadow work” is one of the top self-help buzzwords of the 21st century.

Many lament the things they can’t unsee they’ve tucked away and unconsciously act on every day. The bougie folks are sure only they have golden ones because they like the sound of it but not enough to go delve into what Jung was riffing on when he mentioned it. Meanwhile people are excusing all kinds of bad behavior by claiming they are working ON and with their shadow…to heal.

There is only one problem: Most of that amounts to the one place the shadow usually does NOT have enough space to fully show up: within incessantly gazed at navels.

You really wanna do this?

You really want to engage in the parts of you that keep tripping you up because you keep trying to simultaneously act from them and leave them behind because you’re shamed by them?

Are you tired of disparaging in others what you can’t bear to openly admit you see and hate in yourself?

DO you want to understand why THAT one is the guy or girl of your dreams …even though it flies in the face of reason and everything you know about sanity, compatibility and chemistry?

Are you SURE?

You can’t be a punkass and fully get this work.

We are not gonna be sitting here acting all BCBG or Jungian about the whole thing. Just because that’s the way every one else is Being when it comes to this topic does not mean it’s a bridge you have to fling yourself off of.

We are who Shot the dog-ing this.

…The true topic is each of us has our own personal “dark side of the moon” that comes out to howl and show its ass every once in a while, leaving the supposedly more sane aspects of you to root through the carnage and pick up the pieces.

But your shadow shows its ass 100% due to the stuff in your respective lives you are pretending to be or not to see.

It wouldn’t have to burst out of the basement you keep it chained up in if the brunt of the cultural programming we’ve received since 1966 hadn’t demanded that we collectively participate in living some kind of bona fide lie to be accepted in society.

You let your shadow show it’s ass…because you agree with the daft shit it gets up to when it breaks loose.

& that’s the shit we’re gonna unpack and play with.

This hardy lil book is not for the faint-

But it may be the funnest spelunking you ever get up to if you have the gonads to sit with and answer the prompts like nobody but you and your shadow are looking at what you’re saying.

Full disclosure?

Okay fine…If you lie, your shadow gets to punch you in the face until you tell the truth… To yourself. About each query. …Via bad behavior out in the world at inopportune times that you are going to have to answer for.

Because it’s ready to do the work.

It’s been waiting to geterdone for ages.

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