I was in the process of taking a hard look at myself. What behaviors, what patterns, what practices, which individuals did I need to clear and cleanse and purge from my reality? I was almost two months into thrashing hard at these shadows. It wasn’t my first time doing this and I know it won’t be the last. Actually, if I stop doing this I will be unimpressed with myself. Personal growth is a journey, a wildly beautiful one that is continuous.

I had one rule with this shadow work, I was going to own everything in my reality, everything. I was ultimately responsible for everything in my world, I allowed it, I embraced it, I promoted it, I enabled it, I was it, all of it.

It wasn’t until about day 3 of the new diet that I saw the diet for what it was. I was cleaning and clearing my body as I was cleansing and clearing my energetics. I had made the choice to start the diet without really thinking about it. I just knew that my body needed something different, it needed a shift, it needed a cleanse. As I said, on day 3 I laughed at myself finally seeing the mirror. My food choices and diet were a representation of my energetics. The more clean and clear I got with my energetics, the more I was naturally drawn to being clean in what nourished my body also.

Cleanses are much like shadow work for me, I will always come back to them time and time again. Sometimes, it is a cold water immersion, sometimes it is removing specific foods, sometimes it is removing all food, sometimes it is removing caffeine, sometimes it is removing alcohol, almost always it is associated with doing shadow work and often it happens subconsciously. Always, it is just what I needed.