With any story you tell yourself about who you are, if you buy it, you own it. But much of the way we experience ourselves is actually character bleed. And nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the shadow self. We've been programmed to hide the lie about ourselves, as if it were true. But it isn't and it never was. So we do need to identify our shadow selves, but it's so that we can let go of the lie and disown it, rather than own it more fully, as we've been taught to do.
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