Monday, December 18, 2023

Chelan Harkin: A Light That Transforms Our Darkness Into Medicine

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A Light That Transforms
Our Darkness Into Medicine

We liberate ourself and others by talking about our darkness, by bringing it to light. This happens when we know we are not our darkness. When we express our darkness from this place, our expressed shadow becomes a tonic, a gift, a great key.

Shame is the prison key that holds our darkness down and with it, the cascading, revivifying expression of our soul, that torrent of aliveness and gifts.

Sharing our darkness has nothing to do with affirming the darkness or our identification with it. It’s about moving it out of the way of what’s beneath it—our deep, astonishing light, a light that transforms the once darkness into medicine and has no opposite.

— Chelan Harkin


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