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2 WHAT’S LIFE ALL ABOUT?

In order for us to work out who we are, what we want and what our ideal life looks

like we need to work out why we are here and what we are all about. When I first

started out on this journey I really got into shadow work and understanding how all

the bad things in our lives are actually signposts or arrows towards our meaning and

our purpose.

What do I mean by this?

What I mean is that when you go through suffering or trauma in your life the reason

why you suffer so much is because you care about the thing that has hurt you. Have

you ever noticed how in a group of say five children from the same family there is

always one child who will have a completely different experience of childhood to the

other siblings?

What one child will recall as a traumatic and disturbing childhood where they were

tortured, neglected or abused by person A B or C (most often a parent that they have

never truly forgiven and has been the cause of all their problems in life) another child

in that same family will see it as an idyllic childhood where everyone was happy, the

parents were loving and kind, and they had a fortunate and well-resourced childhood

with plenty of opportunities.

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