Amy, I really enjoyed reading your intricately woven story of your shadow dance. The metaphor and the image you included are vivid and delightful! Your story tracing how young Amy hid her shadows and how the present Amy turned around and got curious of your shadows is a marvelous allegory of your inner life's journey. I rejoice in the hard innerwork you have done and your increasing self awareness. I resonate with your "selfishness" shadow a great deal and have danced with this shadow myself. It was a dream that eventually did it for me 😉
So glad you enjoyed it, Deana. It is really interesting. A book I should add to the list of resources is No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, who is the founder of the Internal Family Systems model.
Amy, I really enjoyed reading your intricately woven story of your shadow dance. The metaphor and the image you included are vivid and delightful! Your story tracing how young Amy hid her shadows and how the present Amy turned around and got curious of your shadows is a marvelous allegory of your inner life's journey. I rejoice in the hard innerwork you have done and your increasing self awareness. I resonate with your "selfishness" shadow a great deal and have danced with this shadow myself. It was a dream that eventually did it for me 😉
Thank you’
Interesting, indeed. I haven't looked at my Enneagram type since the end of my Gurdjieff period: https://pavellas.com/2009/07/01/taking-leave-of-some-teachers/
I subsequently dove into the MBTI, even getting myself 'qualified' to administer and interpret the instrument.
Enneagram = 5, MBTI = INTJ. They correlate.
Now, after thoroughly exploring Jung (Carl, not 'Karl') I feel released from both realms, but still retain some values from them.
I have been lucky in life (not without pain and tragedy, to be sure); whatever my dark side may be hasn't manifested for decades.
That does sound lucky indeed, finding your balance in the light, Ron! I meant to correct the Jung misspelling, will do right away!
I’d never heard of these types. Fascinating.
So glad you enjoyed it, Deana. It is really interesting. A book I should add to the list of resources is No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, who is the founder of the Internal Family Systems model.