Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) April/May 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 57

When you do the inner work that’s needed to own your Shadow, then you get to own, accept, embrace, honor and love ALL of yourself….not just certain pretty parts….but ALL of you. Working with your Shadow is one of the most effective ways to lovingly bring your true self out of the shadow and into the light. It allows you to change behaviors and patterns that don’t serve, and it allows you to honor and claim all of who you are. If you’d like to start identifying and working with your Shadow, here are some journaling questions to open up the inquiry: Your answers to these questions will give you the first clues to where you active Shadows may be lurking, and will help you work with those energies and reclaim them. Read Online! Joanna Lindenbaum - Joanna teaches master level facilitation and coaching skills to coaches, healers and speakers so they can respond more powerfully to the issues their clients bring to them. Using her extensive background with Ritual, Archetypes and working with the shadow, Joanna’s brings wisdom from the past into modern day dynamics. Her clients gain a level of skill the majority of their peers don’t have; they become the best of the best at what they do, experience personal shifts as they step into this mastery level, and attract more clients and opportunities. You can learn more at www.joannalindenbaum.com. • What do you see in others that really annoys or triggers you (positive and negative)? • What are the things – positive and negative – that you do by accident? • What parts of yourself are you ashamed of? 57 instead of having that Lazy energy stand in their way of getting things done, they are able to harness their “Lazy energy” to create businesses that give them more than enough time for leisure and pleasure.