06/14/2024
Sunday June 30th is this month's Dark Moon Circle!
If you are a spiritual entrepreneur, healer or provide any type of esoteric, energetic or spiritual service this shadow work circle will tackle what is in your way of leveling up your work!
It's also a chance to check in with the shadows that tend to creep in around us healers - and that is the archetype of the martyr or wounded healer.
We love what we do because we love to help people, but what happens when we chase people to the point of suffering on our own behalf. How often have we given past the point of "nothing left to give"? And how GOOD does it feel when we get validation from doing that!?
That's the shadow of the Martyr. Sometimes we fall back into the ways we have been told, (especially if you are a femme presenting or female identifying person), that suffering is the highest form of love. We are supposed to LOVE sharing what's ours freely and even when it's almost gone. It's a slippery slope!
It can be sneaky too, maybe you are really awesome at boundaries with your spiritual gifts, but you can't seem to make enough money to cover expenses to perform these services.
This too is the shadow of the wounded healer. Often times we heal one level of our discomfort and think "oh yeah, I'm good now" but our shadow says "Holy crap, you're charging WHAT?!?! That's insane! No one will pay that for YOU" and that's because deep down we don't see what we do as worthy of compensation.
"Anyone and everyone could do it so how could you EVER charge your worth?" *that previous quote is written in sarcasm font, fyi*
Or we project outward seeing the incoming surge of spiritual and witchy folk into our business spaces and think "oh my gosh! The market is saturated, I will NEVER get clients now!!! I better up my game and prove how amazing I am" Then proceed to offer freebies, extra unpaid labor and other sacrifices to beg for clients to see you.
All of this can lead to feelings of burnout, exhaustion and frustration. Possibly even leading to the consideration of hanging up your modality of choice for good.
It doesn't have to be so hard. Just a little bit of shadow work can give you the answers you seek, the authenticity you need and the courage to do what needs to be done.
I can't tell you that shadow work will fix ALL your service related problems, but I can tell you unpacking these pesky shadows can give you clarity to easily make decisions and have you walking authentically and confidently in whatever direction your journey goes.