BONUS EPI: Shadow Work Tools For Sexual Trauma Healing

We name shadow work for what it really is: turning toward the parts of us that went underground after trauma, especially the rage, grief, and shame that were never allowed to exist out loud. I share practical, trauma-informed tools for nervous system safety, journaling, repair in parenting, and transforming sacred rage into fuel for healing. 

• defining shadow work as integration, not darkness 
• how unprocessed rage shows up as anxiety, depression, pain, shutdown, hypervigilance 
• why the body’s freeze response is protection, not betrayal 
• using rage as directed energy for boundaries, growth, and self-care 
• parenting while healing, plus rupture and repair as a real practice 
• creating a safe container before going inward, including the GLOW steps 
• rage journaling to clear the surface, then asking what the anger protects 
• writing letters to rage to hear its message without self-editing 
• using tarot or oracle cards as a mirror for the unconscious 
• separating facts from shame stories to challenge “I’m the problem” thinking 
• building a morning ritual and using creativity to transform pain 

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Episodes Mentioned in this Episode

Comparison Rage after Sexual Trauma

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19395493-comparison-rage-after-sexual-trauma

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Transcript

Welcome And Host Background

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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the Awaken Heart, a podcast for healing women. I'm Autumn, licensed professional counselor, late diagnosed, neurodivergent woman, a little bit of ADHD, a little bit of autism, which we call odd HD, and a trauma experience woman. And I'm here. My goal, my desire, my purpose, my why for this podcast is to share my experience, to share what wisdom I do have, and to share my education and what I do know and what it takes to heal, to feel good, to live in a body and in a life that is yours, that you create on your own terms. So that's my goal. That's my spiel. I just wanted to share with you my why and thank you so much for being

Why A Bonus Episode Today

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here. This is Friday's episode. This is a bonus episode. This week's main episode that came out on Wednesday is about comparison rage. And the only thing I need to say about that, that was a good episode. It was a little longer than normal because I did have a lot of notes on it. But I do want to say if you listened, if you stuck with me after the first five, 10 minutes, I thank you so much. I was behind all week this week, a little bit last week, and I woke up, rolled out of bed. I didn't even roll out of bed, I just rolled over, grabbed my phone, grabbed my notes, and just started the episode laying in bed. And then it wasn't until like 10 minutes into the episode that I set up. And when I re-listened to it, I was like, oh girl, what you doing? You sound sleepy, you sound groggy. So my apologies for not being absolutely professional, but that was me. I wanted to show up. I didn't want to not have an episode because I was running behind. I just did it on my terms. I was a little late. So thank you for listening. Thank you for returning. Thank you for being here, despite my little mishap. This bonus episode shairs with the full rage season, the full rage arc that we are in, the sacred rage, the body as an enemy, the unmasking, the clock, the comparisons, all of it.

Sacred Rage After Sexual Trauma

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And today we're going to do some heavy lifting here because this is about shadow work to heal from sexual trauma. This is specifically how to show up and how to acknowledge and how to embrace your sacred rage for what it's actually trying to show you. This is probably one of the heaviest episodes we'll be doing because it's seriously talking about healing after sexual trauma. I'm not saying it's the best or the worst trauma and you got to heal the most. I'm just saying it's really hard. And if you are experienced with sexual trauma, you know what the fuck I mean. And shadow work around sexual trauma is not light. It's not a weekend journaling retreat. It's not, excuse me, it's not an aesthetic practice with pretty candles and a cute notebook. This is sitting with the parts of yourself you've been running from. The parts that were forced into hiding, the parts that carry what happened to you, the parts that are furious and grieving and sometimes terrifying to look at. But here's what I know from my own experience and from years of walking alongside women who are healing from trauma. The shadow holds gifts, real ones, like underneath the rage, underneath the shame, there is something worth finding. That is you, your purpose, your light. You know, it's like no evidence for this. This is me just sharing my thoughts. It's like people see your light and they want it, but they want it so much they want to snuff it out. And if we experience sexual trauma, if we experience trauma, if we experience like even being an undiagnosed neurodivergent woman, it can be traumatic.

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And I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is traumatic. And that's terrifying.

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Like we have been snuffed out, essentially. Our light has been, we've had to push it down and push it down and push it down so that we can stay safe. Because no one told us that we had a light, and that what would happen if we didn't have our guard up or didn't know how to appropriately guard our light, people will take advantage, people will hurt us, people will want to take our light. I think this was a tangent, but I just want you to know that there's a light in you, and it is okay for that light to shine brightly. We just gotta learn tools to create boundaries around this light so that we can stay safe. More to that will come in the rebirth arc of this season. But right now, I'm gonna swing it back to the rage arc.

What Shadow Work Really Is

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In the first step, if you listen to my podcast, I I have a pattern. First, I'm gonna define it, right? Let's talk about what shadow work really is. Excuse me. Let's talk about what shadow work really is because it gets thrown around a lot and it can sound mystical and it can even sound intimidating. But the shadow is everything you've pushed away. The shadow is everything you were told you shouldn't have, shouldn't feel, shouldn't be. The shadow is everything that felt too heavy, too shameful, too dark, essentially just too fucking much. It's not evil, it's not demonic, it's just a hidden part of us. They are the parts of you that went underground because they weren't safe above ground, going back to that light. When we're young, when we're growing up, and no one tells us how precious, how wonderful our light is, we shine it bright, we let everyone see it. We don't have tools to keep ourselves safe. And sometimes people make us go underground. Our light go underground. For sexual trauma survivors specifically, the shadow holds the rage you were never allowed to feel, the grief that had nowhere to go, the shame that was placed on you that was never yours to carry in the first place, the parts of you that shut down to protect yourself, the desires, needs, and truths you buried because expressing them wasn't safe. And the shadow holds the version of you that existed before the trauma and the versions you became after. That's it. That's all shadow work is turning toward the parts you've been running from, sitting with them, asking them what they need, and listening to what they have to say, listening to what they've been trying to tell you. It's not about indulging every dark impulse. It's not about becoming your worst self. It's really about integrating, bringing the hidden parts back into the light so they stop running the show from the background. Because here's what's happening, what happens when you don't do shadow work.

When Unprocessed Rage Leaks Out

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The shadow runs you anyway, just without your knowledge or consent. The rage you haven't processed comes out sideways at your kids, at strangers, at yourself. The grief you haven't felt gets stored in your body as illness, as pain, as shutdown. Hello, autoimmune disease. Hello, chronic gastrointestinal problems. The shame you haven't examined becomes the lens through which you see everything. Whether you're aware of it or not, it is the truth. The shadow doesn't go away when you ignore it. It only gets louder. It just comes, it gets quiet, then comes back, gets quiet, then comes back. It's more desperate, it's more disruptive each time. Shadow work is choosing to have the conversation with the parts of yourself you've been avoiding before they force the conversation on their own terms. And rage is one of the most suppressed emotions, especially for women, especially for trauma survivors, especially for neurodivergent women who were told their intensity was a problem. So the shadow is full of fucking rage, years of it, decades, lifetimes of rage that got pushed down, that was called wrong and ugly and too much. And that suppressed rage just doesn't disappear. It becomes depression. So the rage goes inward. It becomes anxiety, the rage has no target, it just keeps circling. Physical pain, the rage is stored in the body. So chronic pain, autoimmune, gut issues, like this is what I'm talking about. Hypervigilance, rage on a constant, low-level alert. What about self-sabotage, like rage finding indirect expression? And then you've got numbness, rage so overwhelming the system shuts down rather than feeling it. Showing up, detecting, getting to know the sacred rage and shadow work means reclaiming that energy, turning it from something that's been running underground, creating havoc into something you can actually use, actually feel, actually direct. So simple, not easy, because the shadow parts are heavy. Simply, it's easy to speak about, it's easy to say what to do, but it's not easy to actually go through it and do it because it is hard work.

Turning Rage Into Self Rescue

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When I started doing this work, I started journaling. I've been a journaler my whole life. I have always written out my thoughts, I've always had something to say, whether it was being creative, whether it was venting, whether it was processing trauma, whether it was praying to whatever I believed in, to any God that would hear me, like whatever it was. I sat with myself. I sat with my pain and I asked it, what is it that I need to do to get rid of you? What is it that I need to do to feel whole? And I worked at that. I worked at that with body work, which started in just simple breathing exercises. I would pick up, then it moved into yoga, then it moved into somatic work, then it moved into just specific body work, talking to my body, building strength in my body, and building confidence in my body, love for my body. I use tarot cards now. I ask it questions and flip a card and read about it. I think about it, what it means to me. I look at the picture, I try to get some sort of direction, answer, validation, confirmation, whatever it is. Hell, even in the darkest times, I used crisis lines, text crisis lines, phone crisis lines. If it was getting heavy, if I had a dark night, I would use my resources. I would speak to a professional that could help me calm down, that could help me reel it in, that could help me find rational thought. I did a lot of spiritual work. I did cord-cutting things, visualizations, ceremonies, lighting candles, releasing things, manifesting things, wearing certain colors. That was a pattern. And I wasn't the common denominator denominator in the way I'd always been told I was. And that made me feel absolutely bonkers. How could all these people be toxic, dysfunctional, wrong, and I'm somehow not? How could that be real? Am I a delusional? Am I a narcissist who can't see her own part? How could I be the reasonable one when every relationship, every dynamic seemed to come back to the same thing? People who didn't see me, didn't support me, used me, failed me. I questioned my own sanity. Genuinely, I thought I'm the problem, and I just can't see it. But despite that self-doubt, despite the questioning, I kept finding the same truth when I sat with it honestly. I was not the problem. The adults in my life failed me. The systems failed me. The relationships I chose were shaped by a trauma history that pulled me toward familiar, unsafe dynamics. I wasn't delusional. I was a woman with a clear pattern of being surrounded by people who weren't equipped to love me well. Because that's what I knew. That's what felt familiar. That's what my nervous system had been wired for. Because your nervous system will always choose familiar chaos before it will choose unfamiliar comfort. As destabilizing as that realization was, it was the beginning of everything changing. And that was that no one, none of these people were ever meant to save me. Not as a hopeless conclusion, but as a freeing one. Because no one can get this job done like I can. No one can love me back to health. No one can do this for me, which meant I had to do it. And that required a level of self-care, self-love, and a burning it all the fuck down that I hadn't understood before. The rage became my fuel. It stopped being the fire I was drowning in and started being the fire I was fucking cooking with. I had a boss, I had a supervisor in the military. Shout out to Sergeant Alvarez. He was a character. He was, I think he had my back. I think if I could narrow it down to bosses that had my back, I think he had to be the most, maybe one of the most that had my back. It was cool working for him. But he would always say when something would get good or something would get exciting, how would he say it? He'd smack his hands together, he'd rub his hands, and he'd like, now we're cooking with chicken grease. So we're cooking with fire, right? We're cooking with fire, we're cooking with chicken grease. We're ready to get popping. I essentially stopped fighting myself. I stopped being so fiery mad at myself, at my circumstances, at the situation. And when the initial consuming rage started to settle, not disappear, but settle into something more directed, I could finally hone in to something. You know what I mean? I created, I built, I grew up practice with the full case load of women. I have the absolute privilege of watching heal healing women all the time. Sometimes for the very first time. I worked on being a better mother, not perfect. I'm never perfect. I repair when I mess up, I hold space for my kids' experiences, and I change where I need to change. I learned to slow the fuck down. Slow down in my routines, slow down in my thinking, slow down in my chores, slow down in driving, slow my thoughts down, slowing down my expectations. I stopped rushing my mornings. I I gave myself permission to change the belief that slowness is laziness because it's not. It's how I function the best. The rage didn't destroy me, it built me. And I say all this to say that it can build you too.

Parenting Through Rage And Repair

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Before we get to practical tools, I want to just acknowledge that when the sacred rage first surfaces, when the numbness finally cracks and the anger comes through, it's not pretty. It's not focused, it's not channeled, it's vibrating and all-consuming, hitting everything and everyone that you perceive as a threat, even in the smallest ways. I was living with two very strong, very vocal late teenage boys while I was doing my rage season. Parenting and healing at the same time is one of the hardest, messiest experiences of my life. And I have been through some serious shit. Healing and showing up and doing your job as a parent and fostering all the love, compassion, and everything you've never gotten, and just going off a script that you're writing or you're reading or emulating from something you've seen or watched, like it can be hard. It can be hard. The initial rage doesn't discriminate well either. Your nervous system is finally releasing decades of suppressed fury and it doesn't always know where to aim. This is normal. This is part of the process. This is not you being a bad person or a bad mother or a bad human. It's raw rage doing what raw rage does before it gets processed. If you're parenting while you're doing this work, you are going to mess up. You are going to have moments where the rage comes out at your kids and you know immediately that's not where it belonged. You're going to be imperfect in ways that hurt you to see. And you can repair that. You can go back, you can say, I was wrong, that came from somewhere that has nothing to do with you. I'm sorry. You can hold space for their experience even while you're in the middle of your own. Repair is possible and the most important thing you can do as a parent. Because it's not that you're never going to have a rupture. It's that you have the repair, that you take the responsibility, that you act like the grown-up, that you nurture them, you support them despite what you're going through. It's one of the most powerful things you can model for your children. That adults mess up, that adults take accountability, that love includes repair. There's no such thing as being a perfect parent. You can be a good parent. You have to be willing to keep growing, keep showing up, and keep repairing. Eventually, not overnight, not on schedule, the consuming rage starts to shift, not disappear, but will but will shift. It becomes more directed, more purposeful, less like being inside a fire and more like holding the torch. That's when you can start doing shadow work. When the fire cools just enough for you to look at that, what uh what's burning. So let's get into it. How do you do shadow work? Okay, we're gonna do the actual work, real techniques, real practice things you can do.

Creating Safety And Using GLOW

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So, first off, before you can get into shadow work, Shadow work, you need to feel safe enough to go there. For us trauma survivors, you cannot do shadow work from a dysregulated nervous system. You'll just re-traumatize yourself. So, first off, create a container. First, make sure you are physically safe, a space that's private, comfortable, where you don't feel intimidated, interrupted, viewed, listened to, all that. And then you need time. Don't do shadow work when you're rushed or about to go do something demanding. I also encourage you to have something planned during or after as a treat. Have something, a good treat while you're doing it, or a good treat while after you do it. Reward yourself for the hard work. Your brain will thank you. And then you need to ground first. Feel your feet on the floor, take some slow breaths, arrive in your body before you go inward. Keep something comfy nearby: a blanket, a warm drink, something that signals safety to your nervous system. Maybe some fidgets, maybe a picture of someone, whatever it is. And have an agreement with yourself that you can stop at any time. You do not have to go further than you're ready to go. So before you get into the rage work, I have an anachronym that can be simpler than these steps, but I want to I want you to do physical safety and time. Those are important, right? And then to get safe, I want you to glow. G-L-O-W. Ground yourself, like we spoke about. Feel your feet on the floor, look around the room, name some colors, name some objects, tell yourself, identify where you're at. Take a breath. L lengthen the exhale. Whatever you do, just take a breath in and make sure the exhale is longer than the inhale. That will help you ground. And then O, offer yourself the agreement, the acknowledgement that this is hard work. I can stop at any time and I can go as far as I'm ready to go. And then W, wiggle. Shake your body, jiggle, wiggle, shake it out, shake the arms, shake the legs, shake everything, and then get settled into your spot. Glow. That's the anachronym.

Rage Journaling To Clear The Surface

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So I like to recommend getting it out first. So a rage journal, uncensored, unedited, ugly, messy, just raw. Set a timer for 10 to 20 minutes. Write everything you're angry about. Don't think about it. Don't edit it. Don't make it pretty or coherent or fair or right or just or understanding or sympathetic or none of that. Because none of this means you're a bad person. This just means you're getting the fury out. Write about who you're furious at and why. Write about what was taken from you. Write about what was done to your body. Write about what was never said, never acknowledged, never made right. And write about what you wish you could say out loud but never have. Let it be raw. Curse, rage, scream on paper. When the timer goes off, put your pencils down. Don't read it back immediately. Just breathe. This is not the shadow work. This is clearing the top layer so you can get to what's underneath. So once you let the surface rage out, it's time to go deeper. Shadow work lives underneath the initial fury. So take a feeling from your rage journal, one specific anger, and ask yourself, what is this anger protecting? Because rage almost always protects something, usually grief, fear, a need that was never met, a truth that was never acknowledged, or maybe even a part of you that was hurt and is still hurting. So maybe you're furious that no one helped you. That's protecting the grief of a child who needed adults to show up and didn't. That's protecting. That's protecting the fear that she wasn't worth showing up for. That's protecting the deep aching need to have been seen and loved and protected. Maybe you're furious at your body freezing. And that's protecting you from the grief about what happened while frozen. Maybe it's protecting you from the truth that the freeze was the only protection available. And maybe it's protecting you because a part of you that survived and has never been thanked for that, right? Like you survived that by freezing. Had you not froze, you may not have survived. And you've never been thanked for that. It's it's protecting that. Write what you find, don't rush it. Sit with it.

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Next up.

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This one sounds a little strange, but it it can

Write Letters To Your Rage

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work. It can help. Write a letter to your rage. Not about your rage, but to it, as if your rage is a person, as if it has something to say. So you can simply start with, Dear Rage, I'm finally listening. What have you been trying to tell me? And then I want you to write the response. Let your rage speak. What has it been screaming that you haven't been hearing? You might find that you've been trying to tell yourself that you're not the problem, that what happened to you was wrong, that you deserve better. Maybe it's telling you to stop going back to people who hurt you. Maybe it's telling you that you're worth fighting for. The rage knows things. It's been knowing them for years, and this is how it finally gets to be heard.

Tarot And Oracle For Reflection

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If you use tarot or oracle cards, are curious about them, tarot can be a really good tool for shadow work because the images speak to the unconscious in a way that words sometimes can't reach. I pull my cards when I'm journaling, not as a prediction, but as a reflection, as a mirror for what's happening internally. More like a validation, like I said earlier. So you can ask your cards, what is my rage protecting me from? What am I not seeing about this anger? What does this rage want me to do? What part of myself am I hiding in this fury? You don't need to be an expert. You don't need to know all the meanings. Look at the image, notice what you feel, notice what comes up. That's your shadow surfacing through the image. So before this episode, I pulled out my Oracle cards. It's a sacred feminine oracle divine healing. Rock pool is like the publishing company. So I just got the inspiring card. And I asked it to just provide us, us as me and you, the listener, a card that could help us during our shadow work. And what would it say? So what I pulled is inspiring. Keywords here are inspiration, expression, maturity. The card asked you to bring your relationships with yourself and others into balance. I love it. This is what we're doing. Some of the mentions, some of the helpful affirmations they offer is I am authentic and stop playing a role to appeal or seduce. I dare to show myself as I truly am. I express my emotions and honor them in ways that it s work best for me and inspire me. I like this one. I am honest with others. I refrain from lying and using platitudes. I am true. So, I mean, not that this is all shadow work. I just thought it would be fun to pull something and talk about it as an example. I didn't pull a tarot card, which should have been obvious, but I'm really loving the Oracle cards. Just give me a word. I I pulled one the other day. My question was, what is it that is holding me back from getting to where I want to be? But it was worded different, but that's basically what I asked. And I got the judgment card, and it was about letting go of self-judgment, letting go of the self-critique. And I'm almost like, okay, okay, I hear you. And that's why I like it because it's like, it didn't change my life. It didn't like give me some superpower, but it did give me an insight to be like, you're right. I do need to reflect on how I judge myself, the pressure I put on myself to perform, to mass, to be all the things, right? So tarot cards, oracle cards, they're fun. I like them. I try to get seemingly good-natured ones. Mine are more on the feminine side, very pink, very gold.

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I love them.

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So tarot

Facts Versus The Shame Story

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cards. Another tool here is when you're questioning your own sanity.

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What I kept finding was practicing, I'm not the problem. And I kept asking, how, but how can that be?

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So write down the story you've been telling yourself about a relationship or dynamic that's involved in your rage. And then write what's actually factually true here. Not your interpretation, not their interpretation, but the facts. What happened, what was actually said and done, what is the pattern observed over time. When you separate the facts from the story, things often become much clearer. The narrative that you're the problem, that you're too much, that you somehow brought this on yourself often doesn't hold up against the evidence. This isn't about making yourself blameless blameless for everything that's ever happened. It's about seeing clearly, accurately, without the distortion of shame and conditioning, telling you that everything is your fault.

Morning Ritual And Creative Alchemy

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This is my tool. I have learned this, I have picked this up. But next up is having a morning ritual. Not every day, because not every day is perfect, but this is a practice. No rushing, no checking your phone immediately, no jumping straight into the demands of the day. Give yourself time to arrive, to check in, to ask yourself what's alive in me today? What am I carrying? What am I, what needs attention? Even 15 minutes of this can change everything because you're creating a daily practice of turning towards yourself instead of running from yourself, which is at its heart what shadow work is. So you can sit with your coffee and tea in actual stillness, not scrolling, not screening of any kind. Maybe journal one page to start off. Whatever comes out, no agenda. Maybe pull an Oracle card, pull a tarot card. You can do a short body scan. Where do you feel tension? What does my body need today? And then maybe one honest check-in question. And my Finch app has a great question that I want to use instead of the one I wrote down. And this is what I have for me every day this week. And I really like this question. But it is what is the one thing that would soothe or regulate me today? What is the one thing that would soothe or regulate me today? And last tool is practice creating. Write, paint, garden, cook, organize a space, build something, make something beautiful out of the ugly. This is how the rage becomes fuel in a tangible way. You take the heavy and you transform it into something. It doesn't have to be art, it doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be for anyone else. It's you taking what the shadow gave you and turning it into something that didn't exist before. That's alchemy. And it's one of the most healing things you can do. This is like inner child healing.

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Learning to play, learning to create.

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So I want to give you permission to fill it all, to name it, to let it be holy, so to speak, instead of shameful. I want you to understand that your body didn't portray you, betray you, it protected you.

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And that reclaiming it is part of the work. So please take time with your rage.

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See what it's actually trying to show you. This is heavy work. I know this. This isn't the kind of episode you listen to while you're doing dishes or driving to work. You can, please do, but come back to it. This is an episode you return to, you sit with, come back to when you're ready to go a little deeper. And I want you to know wherever you find your shadow, whatever is in there that feels too dark, too heavy, too shameful, too much, you are not alone in it. I've been in my own shadow. My clients are in theirs. Every woman healing from sexual trauma is doing some version of this work, whether she calls it that or not. The shadow holds your pain and it holds your power. And the only way to get to the power is to be willing to sit with the pain. And as always, you don't have to do it all at once. You don't have to go and do more than what you're ready for. You can go slowly, you can stop, you can come back. But just go turn toward what you've been running from. Ask it what it needs. Listen to what your rage has been trying to tell you. Because underneath it all, underneath the fury and the grief and the heavy and the hard is you. And she's so fucking worth finding.

Journal Prompts And Closing Words

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Okay, some journal prompts. So I'm saving them to the end. Feel free to stop, write them down, come back to them. I've got a few. I may, I'm gonna try to wrap this up. I don't want to have another long episode, but I don't want to speed through. So here we go. Journal prompts. What am I most afraid of to find if I look at this anger honestly? Who specifically am I furious at? And what do I wish I could say? What truth has my rage been trying to tell me that I've been afraid to believe?

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What does the version of me underneath all of this actually want?

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I thank you so much for being here today. I thank you for showing up for yourself. Please take a moment. If you've made it this far, you've listened to the whole episode, congratulate yourself, commend yourself for listening to something that may feel hard or may bring up things for you. I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to help. I hope one of the tools you can pick up and start working on just a little bit. If you feel this episode is shareable to someone you may know or someone who may need it, please share it. Please talk about it. Please talk about this experience, your experience. We live in a society that makes our voices not loud, not heard. And we need to change that. And changing that is by changing the conversation, talking about rape and molestation and sexual assault, sexual coercion out loud, sexual misconduct. And talking about what needs to happen for it to be avoided. Not for us to heal, but for us to be avoided. Boy, are those topics coming. Whatever you do, however you feel, I appreciate you being here. I thank you so much for listening. It really warms my heart. Share it with someone. I'm not on social media, I'm not on marketing platforms or anything like that. So this is all growing word of mouth. Hit a thumbs up, hit an emoji, give me some likes or comments, tell me what you'd like to hear. Yeah, I think I'm wrapping it up now. Wednesday's episode. I'm not sure what it's about. I need to start getting into the habit of knowing what I'm doing next week. But Wednesday's episode is going to be continuing on the rage arc. We're going to still stay in the rage arc for about a couple more episodes before we get into the rebirthing arc. And yeah, until next time, take the gentlest possible care of your awakened heart, my dears, and be willing just a little to turn toward the shadow. She's not as scary as you think, and she has the gifts that you've been looking for. Take care of you, and I'll see you soon.