If shadows could speak, this is what they would say.
Befriending Shadows is a poetry collection about the effects of an old identity falling away and discovering who we are without it.
Written during a dark night of the soul, these poems wander through disorientation, anger, shame, spirituality, creativity, friendship, the internet, and the peculiar process of learning to accept ourselves.
The collection unfolds in four sections:
The Crisis of Disorientation
Into the Dark Woods
Befriending Shadows
Together Out of the Woods
At its heart is a question:
What if the facets of ourselves we're reluctant to face are not our enemies, but guides?
Befriending Shadows explores the tension between sensitivity and overwhelm, belief and uncertainty, connection and isolation. It is a book for anyone who has questioned what they believe, felt disoriented by the modern world, or sensed that an old version of themselves was beginning to disappear.
Like a cicada emerging from their pupae state, we can shed an identity that no longer fits and step into something new.
This is not a book about having all the answers.
It's a book about walking into the woods anyway.