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The Shadow Inventory

✦ Journal Prompt
Practice

The Shadow Inventory

Begin to name and understand the parts of yourself you have been avoiding.

45–60 minutes✦ Journal Prompt
The Practice

Begin where you are.

Take your time with each prompt. There is no right answer. The practice is the honesty.

Open journal with handwritten notes and a pen on a wooden surface
1.

What qualities in other people trigger the strongest reactions in you?

Handwritten manuscript pages with ink and quill on a wooden desk
2.

What parts of yourself have you been told to hide or suppress?

Serene mountain lake at dawn — a space for inner reflection
3.

What would you do if you were not afraid of judgment?

Focused person in deep concentration at a minimalist workspace
4.

What is the gift hidden inside your most difficult quality?

Connected Rooms

Where this practice lives.

The Path Continues

Do not begin with everything.
Begin with what is calling you.

Enter a room. Read a teaching. Hear the voice. Practice the work. Keep the wisdom.