Face Your Shadows - Embodiment as a Revolutionary Stand

The revolutionary act of embodiment means inviting your soul to live fully in your body. You avoid embodiment to avoid past pain, but when your Soul is embodied, insane magic becomes possible!

Feb 10, 2025

My little one is at a stinking cute age! When she’s not being roll-on-the-floor funny, she offers incredible insight into the nature of being human.

Today, we were on our way to daycare when she started complaining about the sun in her eyes.

“Just wait, honey. It won’t last long. The shadows will come and help,” I offered.

“No, I don’t want the shadows!” she said just as we came upon a tree-line that shielded her eyes from the sun.

“But the shade helps keep the sun out of our eyes. The shadows are helpful,” I tried again.

“Shadows—go away!” she commanded in her most serious three year-old voice. “Shadows, leave now!” she waved her little hands in front of her face as if she could swat the shade from her eyes.

“Why don’t you like the shadows, my love?” I asked, biting my lip not to laugh at the sweet child fighting intangible beasts in the backseat.

“They’re scary,” she answered as if it should be obvious.

This little one is NOT a naturally fearful girl.

She comes by her courage honestly—both her father (easy-going, no-nonsense & happy-go-lucky) and her mother (balls-to-the-wall, magically courageous) are not fearful people.

For Izzy, fear is more of a game than a visceral reaction.

But there are certain things she’ll tell you should just, “Go away!”

And they’re the selfsame triggers that cause more fearful kids to hide under the covers and behind their mothers’ skirts.

To me it’s obvious—some things are just scary for humans—no matter your age or temperament.

I love that Isabelle recognizes the edge of darkness… the echo of the Unknown that lives in every shadow.

Somewhere deep down, we’re all afraid of shadows.

Grown-ups just do a better job hiding from our fears.

(No—I didn’t say hiding our fears… I said hiding FROM our fears.)

As adults, we have tactics for avoiding discomfort, friends who support our denial, and systems built to exploit half-alive humans.

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Our culture ostracizes feeling too deeply.
We’re pressured to be “nice” and play by the rules.
We’re encouraged to not show all of ourselves to the world.

And it seems that no one cares (or even notices) if we ignore the parts of ourselves that don’t please the system.

But these exiled pieces of ourselves don’t go away.

They live in our bodies, quietly ignored.

In trying to avoid these parts of ourselves, we unintentionally close off parts of our psyche and soul… banishing them to the unconscious and ignoring the parts of the body they occupy.

The outcast pieces of ourselves.
The memories we’d rather forget.
The secrets we hope no one will discover.

As children, we allow ourselves to explore the full range of feeling and movement, but as we grow older, we close the doors of that house and lock away the parts of ourselves deemed unacceptable.

four boy playing ball on green grass — Photo by Robert Collins on Unsplash

We move on without these pieces, praying that if we ignore them long enough, they’ll disappear. But to do this, we must cut ourselves off from the all-feeling one—the wildly physical, intimately perceptive body.

We wind up living in our heads with scarce a connection to the physicality of the beautiful body we were born into this life.

In short—consciousness avoids occupying the body to avoid facing the shadow.

So, here we are, adults with important lives and little awareness of the places we avoid.

But if you’re reading this…

You’re also a magical soul on a beautiful, unfolding journey of growth and empowerment.

So what do you say?

Are you ready to throw open the door of your soul and psyche to shine a Light into the dark corners?

I’ll admit, it can sometimes feel like a terrifying prospect.
After all, we don’t really know what’s in there, right?

But the truth is…

It’s never as bad as you fear it will be.

There’s a reason Franklin D. Roosevelt said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…”

Fear is petrifying. It keeps us stuck… locked… trapped… without any explanation.

Until a simple act of consciousness shines Light on the Unknown places inside you.

Even if there really are monsters or metaphorical demons lurking in the shadows of your psyche and soul, the simple act of loving the unloved, transforms Everything.

Those pieces of yourself you’ve ignored… cast off… shunned have become dark with dis-use. They lost their luminosity when you took your Love away from them and told them to hide themselves away.

But those so-called demons are actually some of your most amazing gifts— misunderstood and banished to the dungeons of your life.

The world told you did not fit… did not work… were not OK… were not acceptable… and you listened.

(Don’t feel bad! We’ve all done it.)

But to be whole… you need every part of your Self.

Our society is quick to shove all kinds of amazing things underneath the rug.

Traditionally, they especially despise the powerful, change-making, sensitive, and magical parts of you, because those are the parts of you that deeply threaten the social hierarchies and destructive habits of our dominator culture.

BUT I WAS SENT HERE TO TELL YOU…

It’s okay to be a wildcard, because it means you’re present.

It’s okay to feel deeply, because it means you’re connected.

It’s okay to shatter expectations, because it means you’re real.

It’s okay to embrace ALL of your Self.

Even if it’s painful at first, it will only make you stronger… wiser… more wholly You.

Here at Mystery, Magic & Mayhem…

We’re embarking on a Quest of Embodiment!

The revolutionary act of embodiment means inviting your soul to live fully in your body.

You were taught to avoid embodiment to avoid coming face to face with those monsters lurking in the shadows.

But without embodiment, there’s no way to materialize the real magic that’s possible for humans here on Planet Earth.

It takes a vibrant, alive human body to alchemize invisible, eternal, etherial energies into physical matter.

That’s the physics of magic.

And when you actually sink into your body, your magical gifts explode into this world!

This Friday— I’m hosting a Community Energy Magic event to empower you to shine Light into the darkness and fully occupy your body!

Energy magic is simple, gentle, and wildly powerful.

All you have to do is show up and be willing to allow your body and soul to explore and dance together.

This is a community event, which means that the energy of the group will naturally be helping us in our own journeys. Your efforts will be amplified by the natural magic of conscious community.

Energy magic is some of the most powerful work I do.

The basic concept is that I act as a Divine translator, bringing through visualization practices that empower you to live healthy, whole, and magical.

The actual experience is a little bit like a guided meditation, but instead of simply relaxing or clearing your mind, you’ll be guided to actually engage with real magic, using your consciousness to move energy through your physical body in an optimal way, with support systems in place to guide you every step of the journey.

As a hereditary seer, I’m right here with you the whole time, watching what’s happening in the invisible world and making sure the space is held for you to experience, life-changing transformation.

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Community Energy Magic

Friday, Februrary 14 @ 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 4:30am AEDT (+1 Day)

A Divinely-guided transmission where you’ll learn to bring your consciousness down into your body and infuse every cell of your being with Love. Healing old wounds, clearing out not-self energies, and inviting your Soul into deep relationship with the physical world, you’ll practice Divinely-empowered embodiment.

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→ Event recording will be available to Inner Sanctum members.

For those who wish to dive even deeper into their own personal journey and awaken their magic on a whole new level, I also offer 1-on-1 Energy Magic Coaching on a monthly subscription basis.

AND…

Membership to the Mystery, Magic & Mayhem Inner Sanctum of Heretics is now included in your monthly Energy Magic subscription, so you can benefit from this amazing community and all the magical training here on Substack as you deepen into your own personal journey.