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Having Compassion for your Shadow is like having Compassion for your Foam Roller
There is a terrible misunderstanding in the spiritual community: Having compassion for Yourself means having compassion for your Shadow....

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Apr 2, 20212 min read


Evil and Inept: Why My Compassion Does Not Extend to Your Excuses
Today I was called "evil" and "inept." Some backstory and why this is relevant. In the very early hours of the morning, a person who is...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Mar 31, 20212 min read


Dark Magick, Shadow Magick, and the Karmic Law
Magick in its most fundamental form and simplistic definition is Life Force. That it is an underpinning of life is the reason personal...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Mar 28, 20214 min read


Inner Child Work, and How it Goes Wrong
Inner child work is a form of Shadow Work in which you address the part of yourself that is an eternal child and explore how as an adult...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Mar 26, 20214 min read


Permission or Forgiveness
"It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission." Asking for either is a trauma response. We ask for permission when we believe we...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Nov 8, 20201 min read


Safe
We often equate "safety" to "physical safety" as if what happens to our body determines whether or not we are safe. That's a mild...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Nov 8, 20203 min read


Run on Chaos
2020 Hell-scape Apocalyptic Disastrous Just plain fucked up Crazy (in the bad way) is the most generous adjective I've heard. Yet for me,...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Nov 8, 20202 min read


Immaterialize
An event is a thing we pass through. It is momentary, fleeting, largely inconsequential. Any physical marks it leaves will eventually...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Nov 3, 20202 min read


Root
This morning I was doing Shadow Alchemy for myself and I hit a a bitch and a half of a Shadow. It was stubborn and twisty and it just...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Oct 4, 20202 min read


(Un)Boxing Sexuality & Healing Sexual Trauma
The language we use around sexuality is often one of “blooming.” We use misleading images of “[de]flowering” and “blossoming” and...

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Sep 21, 20204 min read


Fault
We have control in spaces where we typically decide we have none.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Aug 24, 20204 min read


Heard
We need to hear ourselves and risk being murdered, lest we commit violence to ourselves.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Aug 22, 20202 min read


Declaration
As someone who is insanely good at pattern recognition, it's a little strange to realize how much I missed.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Jul 27, 20201 min read


ReDo
Once the patterns appear, they are impossible to unsee.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Jun 29, 20202 min read


Discomfort
We have to be comfortable with other people's discomfort.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
Jun 8, 20202 min read


Swear Word, Curse Word
Crafting a powerful curse or swear requires putting together both the words and the intention.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
May 15, 20202 min read


Embracing the Abrasive
I am the Destructive Goddess who will push you to your best self and demand you make the changes you say you want.

Rhiannon Flores-Drennen
May 14, 20203 min read
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