UMBRA

The fifth stage is a meeting with the shadow. Not with a monster. With parts of yourself that you have hidden, denied, felt ashamed of. Anger. Envy. The desire for more. Fatigue from caring for others.

Here you give yourself permission to be angry. To be tired. To not want to be accommodating. To want more — not because you are greedy, but because you are alive.

Here you ask yourself difficult questions: who have I not forgiven? What am I hiding even from myself? What fear guards my main dream?