I have been writing offline a lot lately, partially because I am working through the Loner Wolf‘s Shadow Work Journal. I highly recommend it. It’s a compilation of exercises that help you uncover your dark, repressed side. I believe that uncovering and facing your shadow, accepting and learning to love it is as important as cultivating happiness. In fact, it is perhaps an inevitable next step. You can’t be happy until you are free.

Shadow work is not easy and if you plan to start it, make sure you prepare and have support in place if you need it. A couple of quotes from the Journal: