Dialogues with the Shadow: Writing as a Mirror for What We Hide

The dragon hoards the treasure. The Shadow holds the key.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

- Carl Jung -

Few lines are as haunting—or as liberating. What he meant was this: we all carry a Shadow, the unseen and often disowned parts of ourselves. The Shadow is the inner exile, the parts of us we send into the wilderness because they feel too shameful, too unruly, too dangerous.

But here’s the truth myth has whispered for centuries: the figure we exile is often the very key to our power.