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Sunday Journaling Prompt: Shadow selves: Who's your good girl? Who's your BAD?πŸ“”πŸ–‹οΈβœ¨

Sunday Journaling Prompt: Shadow selves: Who's your good girl? Who's your BAD?πŸ“”πŸ–‹οΈβœ¨

Alert central casting! Get creative, go deep to embrace your inner bad bitch!

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Live footage of my Fiona Apple β€œCriminal” shadow self!

Fellow Empresses,

A Sunday journaling prompt based loosely on Jung’s notion of the shadow self:

β€œEveryone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it.

I’m not sure I always want to β€œcorrect” my perceived faults and inferiorities, but being conscious of my darker aspects makes me feel like a richer sauce!

This self is so perfectly captured in the lyrics and minor chords of Fiona Apple’s heroin-chic song β€œCriminal”. It’s really about the lyrics for me. They’re as much about self-indictment as relishing the badness. β€œI’ve been careless with a delicate man…” and β€œWhen a girl would break a boy just because she can…”

On the flip side, I’m a totally perky…

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