Written by You did not arrive in the world with a shadow.
You were born with the full spectrum of what it means to be human. The capacity for joy and rage, for generosity and selfishness, for courage and cowardice, for tenderness and cruelty. All of it was there, undivided, in the undifferentiated wholeness of the infant self. No part of you was yet unacceptable, because you had not yet learned what acceptance required.
Then the world taught you.
It taught you through the expressions on your parents’ faces. Through what got rewarded and what got punished. Through the things that were said and, more powerfully, t