602. Why You Shouldn't Fear Your Shadow - It's Here to Help You Ascend

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Hello. Welcome to Soul Elevation: Guiding Your Ascension to New Heights. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin. I'm so excited and honored to be here with you today on Monday, July... No, sorry, June 22nd, 2026. So as I'm recording this, we're just on the other side of the solstice window. We're still in the solstice window, but
I hope that this is treating you well, and just a reminder that this is a really fruitful, powerful time. So be conscientious about your thoughts. Be aware of your thoughts. Allow your thoughts to be those which will move you in the direction of the highest version of yourself. And that's what I wanna talk about today is

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ultimately it's your highest version of yourself. But today we're gonna talk about it in the context of the shadow. And the shadow, of course, gets kind of a bad rep, bad rap, um, when you're on the spiritual path because it is this acknowledgement of the, let's call them the darker sides of ourselves. But that's what I, I wanna change that perception as we go along here.
But the way that this topic came to mind for me was that yesterday, kind of out of the blue, I just had this memory of being... I think I was about three years old and I was walking across a parking lot and I noticed my shadow, like my physical shadow as I was a little girl. And, uh, I remember that I was... I mean, it was something that I, I... You g- you kind of just

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keep growing in this world, in this realm and you, you notice things. It wasn't like I'd never noticed my shadow before, but I kind of started playing with it. And, you know, it was attached to my feet because I was up walking around and I was kind of trying to step on it and outrun it. And of course everything that I did, every movement that I made, my shadow made. And I remember doing the same
thing with my mirror reflection, you know, as I was growing up. And y- so you probably have these memories too. But I want you to have that fresh perspective of kind of just discovering your shadow. And I also think that it's a great... When we... Because when we're in a spiritual growth, uh, part of our lives, when we, when we're conscious of our experience here in this realm as being a spiritual

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one, which most people who are incarnated right now are not. You know, they, they are still having a spiritual experience but they're just not aware of it. But once you start to recognize that you are having a spiritual awareness and that starts to move into the forefront of your experience and your understanding of life, then you
will begin to learn about the shadow. And in that context, the shadow is parts of ourselves that are hidden that are It, it feeling like they're working against us because they ultimately are the parts of ourselves that we really wanna overcome. They're the things behind our triggers. They're the things behind the ways that we are

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still trying to overcome, the ways that we show up in the world where we're not our highest self. We're not the best versions of ourselves. They're also... The shadows are also our traumas that we hold. But when we are on a spiritual path, we might get advice about just ignoring the, the darker parts of ourselves. Just not putting any thought or energy into those
parts of ourselves that are, let's call them, the darker aspects of ourselves. And that might serve us for a time, but we're not gonna keep... We're not gonna be able to keep progressing spiritually if we keep, um... What's the word I'm looking for? Uh, discounting is the word that I'm... That's coming, but that's not the right word. If we keep denying, that's it.

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Denying the shadow aspects of ourselves. We will stay in a s- in a loop where we will not be able to get to an, uh, the next level in our spiritual growth. And our spiritual growth is a, a continuous unfoldment and remembrance of who we really are. Our spiritual growth is not a one and done. You know, you may have had a spiritual awakening where you used to see the
world and your life in one way and then, boom, suddenly you understand it in a new way. That's one awakening that you might go through. You may have, um, you know, gotten into conspiracies and you, now you see that the mainstream is not what we've been sold, and you can go deep into that rabbit hole and feel that you've experienced an awakening. That's one version of an

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awakening, but it's not the end. So we continuously, on a spiritual path, we continuously have new levels of awakening, and if we're not able to understand the shadow for what it is- we will not be able to move into higher levels of awakening because the shadow is a really important part of who we are, and there is a lot of spiritual nourishment
and opportunity that comes with the integration of the shadow. And in order to integrate the shadow, we have to be willing to look at the shadow and to look at it clearly for what it is. And I wanna offer A perspective that I found really interesting that I came across, um, just last week. I was watching an old interview with a woman named

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Vashta who does these galactic portraits. And, um, she will, like, tune into her clients, and then she can see, like, you know, who they are in the galactic realm or who's helping them. And the client may or may not already have a relationship that they know about. They may, may or may not know as a human who these beings are. And so I was watching this old
video of hers. Unfortunately, she doesn't do very many interviews, 'cause I would love to have her on the podcast. But, um... And she talked about, because she clairvoyantly, uh, I'm not sure if it's only clairvoyantly, but using her psychic skills, she goes into other realms, and she sees interdimensional beings, and they can be of all different ilk, you know.

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Um, she works, like her team, she works with a lot of Arcturians. But if she's tuning into somebody who has more reptilian connections, that's who she'll c- uh, get in contact with or that's who she'll see if they have more Pleiadian, if they have more Sirian, Andromedan, whatever it might be, or even, um, more kind of inner earth or I think I've even seen sort of middle earth types of
beings with, with her work. She's really fascinating. And one of the things she talked about is through her own traversing of these realms, like in order to get to where she can connect with these beings and see them and be able to do renderings of them, she's had to see all kinds of things in her inner realm. And when she used to see things that were scary, like let's say reptilians,

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she would be afraid, and she, her, her, the way that she dealt with that was that she would kind of run. Um, she would try to get out of there. She would... You know, she'd be afraid, so she would avoid that and try to get out of it. And she was talking about how through her evolution, through her own spiritual development, she started to understand that really these are aspects,
they represent aspects of her. So they may be their own individuated being, but they also... The fact that she can connect with them, there is something within her that is resonating at that level to be able to make, to allow her to have that connection. And so there came a point where she was like, "Okay, I'm not gonna run from this anymore. I'm gonna be curious about it."

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And of course she had to get some experience before she did this so that she could understand that she was safe and that nothing could happen to her without her will. You know, she, if she wanted to be really afraid, she could be afraid, and then that would kind of give them a way to scare her. But if she was gonna hold her own power and just be in curiosity and not allow that to happen, then that's
where the power is. She got to decide how she wanted the experience to be. And then once she decided, "No, I'm just gonna allow this to happen. I'm gonna be curious about it and stand in my power and not be afraid, because I understand that these are aspects of myself to some extent." Because we do have the macro, like the big universe, and then you have the micro, and they're reflections of each other.

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They're reflections of each other So what is happening outside of you is mirroring what is happening inside of you, and vice versa. So it's all one thing. There is this beautiful spiral that happens in creation. And even when things are going wrong, that is pointing us to some opportunity that we have within ourselves to get
into coherence and harmony. And so I found Vashta's explanation of that really powerful, where because she has that inner sight and that psychic sight, and she could see, you know, really see with her psychic sight these beings that they're real beings because some of her clients were connecting with the exact same beings,

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and then she's giving these renderings of them, and the client is like, "Yes, that is what I see." Um, so it's, it's not just solely within her, and it's not just solely within her clients. There is something bigger happening. But there's also that resonance within her that matches that on the outside. And so then it's like, okay, well, what is happening here, and what
do I... what can I heal within myself to integrate this and to be able to help it work for me instead of me feeling like I am a victim to it? And so I like that, uh, that aspect of how this works in the larger scheme. So it doesn't matter if you can't see things on the inner plane. You know, you may be experiencing your shadow as something that you get triggered by,

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that makes you not feel great, and this is why we might have the, the inclination to bypass it. We might have the inclination to do some spiritual bypassing when we come up against our shadow and just say, "Oh, I don't wanna feed that, so I'm not gonna acknowledge it. I'm not gonna give it energy." And there is something to that. We would... We don't want to give it so much energy that it
overtakes us and it's then in the driver's seat. So there is a balance here, but we also don't wanna completely deny it because the opportunity that we have with the shadow is that it is pointing us to places where we still have healing to do, and we can do this healing. There are so many amazing healers who have different modalities. I've had a ton of them on my show. I'm a healer myself.

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And as you continue on your spiritual path, you have the tools within you to address these, these pieces within you, these places within you that still need to be healed. Now, these can be related to traumas that you've had in your past, but they also can be part of your s- things that you're still carrying from past lives here on Planet Earth and/or past or
parallel or even future lives that you have in the galactive, uh, galactic sense, in the cosmic sense. That's something Dr. Dory and I talk about in episode, ooh, what is that? 594 I'm gonna say. It wasn't too long ago, but Dr. Dory and I talk about how your off-planet lives, your galactic traumas can be affecting your y- your triggers, your shadows right now.

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And So a big part of what your, the opport- let's say the opportunity that you have with your spiritual awakening, it's not all about feeling bliss all the time, and it's not about being here on Earth but only relating to yourself as a spiritual being and relating to yourself as your higher self, relating to yourself
from a higher consciousness. That, that's not really what we're here to do. You may have experiences of that, and they're beautiful when they happen. But I believe we're not really, most of us are not really here to live life from that perspective because we are here on the ground, boots on the ground, in human bodies

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living in a modern world. We have relationships and connections and responsibilities, and we are influencing the collective. So, and that's what we're here to do. We're in a time of great change right now from a consciousness perspective. We are in a huge shift, and we are
needed to be able to help facilitate this change By being present, by being human, by putting one foot in front of the other and being in the world, and being ourselves. And so to really be ourselves, we have to be willing to peel away the, the masks, and to peel away the,

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the, um, what's... The walls that we've built, the protective mechanisms, the way that we are presenting ourselves that are not true to who we really are. So it's a, a matter of being completely authentic, and there's some vulnerability in there. But the more that we are willing to strip away the, the falsities of who we are, that is where
we're gonna be the most benefit here in this human life. And the more we do that, the more we're gonna come up against the fullness of who we are, and who we are is a complicated being. It doesn't have to be complicated, but it is that we are a complex, that's the word I'm looking for, complex being. We have a history. We've made mistakes. We

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have things we regret, and that's all part of the package. That's part of the, the deal with coming here. We're not always going to make the best decisions, and the more sensitive we are, the more those mistakes that we've made might, uh, deeply affect us. And so we don't wanna look at them because they make us feel badly. But we can come into this compassion, this increased compassion for ourselves because if we knew better with the things
that we regret, if we knew better, we would have done better. So it's easy for us to look back from a place that we're in now where we have more information, we're older, we're wiser, and we can look back on the, the mistakes that we've made and the places that we're like... That we regret, the, the things we regret doing. It's easy for us to look back and be like, "Oh my God, I can't believe I did that. I can't believe I said that. I

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can't believe I made that person feel that way. I really know better, and that makes me feel so guilty and ashamed." Yes, everybody who's watching this is going to be able to relate to that And you were where you were at that point in your life, and you're learning from that experience. That experience is helping you to develop into a better person. But
you have to be willing to see and acknowledge those things about yourself that are not the gleaming, diamond, beautiful reflection that you want to show to the world. They're the darker parts of you that kind of make you curve inward, that make you kind of wanna not be seen. But the more that you can have compassion within yourself, you can do practices

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like working with the violet flame with, uh, Saint Germain. Um, that's a very cleansing, um, a very cleansing practice. You can get with a Reiki practitioner and help them to help transmute that energy. You can give it to God. You can talk to your higher self, talk to God, talk to your guides. I like to... When something's really bothering me, I like to put it in my hands. I kind
of mentally offer it in my cupped hands, and I offer it up to my higher self, to pure source consciousness, and say, "Please, this is yours now." So if something's really weighing on your heart, you can do that. There are a lot of different things that you can do, but the important thing is to recognize that these shadows that show up, they are ways that you are being sculpted

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into a higher version of yourself Because what is sculpting? If you think of, um, somebody who is taking, like, a block of stone and they're just chiseling and chiseling... I don't even know if that's the right instrument, but they're... There's a block of stone, and they're creating form out of that stone. They're actually taking away what is not that
stone. I think it... Was it Michelangelo that said that? That said that when he looks at a block of stone and he sees what it is that he's gonna create, it's just a matter of taking away that which is not that perfected piece. And that's what you are. So as you come up against these shadows and these triggers, you know, the triggers are caused by the shadow.

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Having that compassion, being able to help you remove the story, remove that energy and that emotion that keeps that kind of blocked and condensed in your energy field, that will help it dissolve, help it to become more, um, a flowing part of the totality of who you are, and that is a huge gift. Because these shadows are
within you as contractions in your energy field, and they are blocking the flow of energy. So as you are able to... Sorry, let me... I guess I didn't, um, put myself on do not disturb. Um, so as you are able to release these and to, you know, that through compassion you're dissolving those densities, and then you have

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access. This is, this releases that energy and allows it to come into the truth of who you really are, to come into the fullness of who you really are. And that will help you, and it will help everybody because, again, you are contributing to the collective. So- Just don't run away when the shadow shows up. Get
curious about it. See what it's inviting you to heal, to- inviting you to see about yourself, inviting you to learn, and use that. Dissolve those contractions and integrate, utilize that energy. So thank you so much for being here. It's such a blessing and an honor to be here with you today. Please share, subscribe,

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um, to the podcast, like the episode. All of those things are so helpful. I'm so grateful to be with you. I'm so grateful for you and the work that you're doing on yourself to help the collective. So thank you so much. Bless you, and I'll see you next time Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Soul Elevation. If someone in your life would be inspired or uplifted by what you heard today, please take
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