Sunday Journaling Prompt: Shadow selves: Who's your good girl? Who's your BAD?📔🖋️✨
Alert central casting! Get creative, go deep to embrace your inner bad bitch!
Fellow Empresses,
A Sunday journaling prompt based loosely on Jung’s notion of the shadow self:
“Everyone 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 “correct” 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 “Criminal”. It’s really about the lyrics for me. They’re as much about self-indictment as relishing the badness. “I’ve been careless with a delicate man…” and “When a girl would break a boy just because she can…”
On the flip side, I’m a totally perky…
…Nancy Drew—a consummate solver and seeker of truth. I have to get to the bottom of things… it’s a blessing, a curse, and it’s completely annoying to certain people in my family. I keep Nancy busy with difficult books, endless projects, and minor clandestine household operations with Teodora. 😂
Who is your good girl? Who is your shadow self? Your bad bitch queen? Whom would you cast for both parts? How can you befriend and embody both in different ways?
You can have some real fun with the casting… Enjoy!
Yours in Grandeur and heavy sh*t,