The Circle is Where I Begin Again

A Place of freedom, Barbie dolls, and the maps that bring us home.

It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote — not because I disappeared, but because something was unfolding.

That’s often how my Shadow Work episodes begin — not with a lightning bolt, but with a pause.

And this time, the pause led me back to the Circle.

If you’ve been following along, you might remember this place — a moonlit clearing in my inner landscape, mirroring one by a creek behind my childhood home. It’s not real in the physical sense, but I visit it often.

The last time I was there, I met Aslan under the moonlight.
He was urging me to return to my boyhood bedroom — to the closet where I hid in shame.

But long before the Circle became a mythic Place of Return, it was something simpler.
It was where I played with Barbie dolls with my sister.

We were outside, away from the house — and for a moment, I was free.
Free to imagine. Free to play. Free to be a version of myself that wasn’t bound by shame.

That’s where I found myself during this most recent pause — in a memory that lived in the map of my inner world.

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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how our inner worlds hold places like this.

The Circle. The Closet. The Safe Tree.

They aren’t just metaphors.
They’re landmarks — proof that I’ve been shaped by more than what happened to me... to us.

They reflect how we’ve carried what we couldn’t say out loud.
Where we hid.
What we protected.
What we left behind.

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And that’s why I’ve been quiet.
Because I was creating this — for you:

Map Your Inner World: A Starter Guide for Shadow Seekers
An initiation into Shadow Work — for the brave and curious.
Accept this gift here.

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Whether you’re returning to this work or just beginning, you don’t need to do it perfectly.
You just need a place to begin.

This map is my offering.
It’s a doorway — to memory, to reflection, to the parts of you that are ready to be seen again.

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P.S. I’ll be sharing more about this journey soon — especially as Pride Month approaches and we return to the places we once hid.
This time, not to disappear… but to reclaim what we left behind.

P.P.S. The Mapping guide is also a first step into my upcoming online course, Journey Through the Shadows.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign — this is it.