a Shamans Shadow: "a Traumatized Creator"
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We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We empathize with the traumatized creator within us. The excitement of creating something new reminds me of the twistingly, sharp pain of sacrifice. Shaman doesn't create from nothing, but in fact, creates from self. Christopher feels that sacrifice every time we create. The more shaman doesn't acknowledge and empathize with its own shadow, the more Christopher is neglected by self
But instead, we were filled with so much love, imagination, naivety, even that's safeguarded our heart. But we weren't completely oblivious. And so our shadow, Christopher is really the one archiving these things that we don't consciously want to think about
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:18
And then to grow up in this environment where maybe you're being constantly reminded of how painful it is for your mom, people around you to just exist because they have their own demons, and yet you thrive. Like, I think about how incredibly horrific things happen to us. And sometimes people don't. They don't make it. They don't thrive. They literally become what would make more sense, right? They become what made them
And here we are today, finding ourselves being put in opportunities and being not groomed, but cultivated to be that symbol, that advocate and speak for perhaps those who cannot put trauma into words. This whole, you know, thriving. It's interesting because honestly, we don't even see it as we thrived. But we do understand what you're saying, too, because you're right, we did thrive
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:43
There's so much here that you shared and as often with your posts, I have to process them before I respond. But I'm just going to say this initially that just came to my mind. I would not shy away away from saying your cockiness or anything or those were arrogance, even in the most positive sense of the form, because you dared to defy those that would believe or tried to speak nothingness over your life. You dared to have the arrogance to say you are incorrect
Yes. Pk. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. We agree with you. You know, there does come a point in time where we take our power back and we make that choice, you know, because we want want to do it. And we also see what we direly want to do. What we're committed to do is so powerful. Right
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