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compensating for this complex she had from knowing that we are everything
been carrying around her entire life. She we wish they weren’t. Through self-
told us it didn’t matter how successful awareness, you can make an effort to

she became. She knew she could never change the patterns that you’ve inherited
live up to her mother’s exaggerated or resolve the hurt that you experienced

expectations. She couldn’t believe it when through your relationship with them.
it became clear. Most important, you can begin to accept
this aspect of yourself. Otherwise, you

This is also a great example of how our will continually project it onto others.
Shadow holds important information The awareness for Jennifer felt truly

that can help us heal our parental liberating. As soon as she could take the
imagos. Though her mother had died, projection back, her animosity towards
that mother complex lived on inside of Susan was completely gone! This has

her until she could relate to it. happened to me in my own life and it
showed me the importance of doing this
A dream represents the dreamer’s work and it is ongoing.

situation as it is, externally or (an excerpt from the Workbook)
internally or both; and it compensates Shadow Work becomes a way of being in

the one-sidedness of the the world.
conscious view, that is, it relates a
message which is unknown

to the dreamer but is potentially vital Rebeca Eigen
and in need of being known.

Edward C. Whitmont, The Symbolic Quest

Forgiving Our Parents
When we cannot forgive our parents, we

are destined to repeat many of their fears
and failures and even live their unlived
life. Our parents were human beings who

had a light and dark side. We will gain

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