Jung suggested that the positive Shadow also includes our beneficial characteristics that we choose to keep hidden, probably because of some remonstrations we received as kids. Like, “Girls shouldn’t act smart”. One thing I came to notice in the corporate part of my career is how people tended to leave many of their great qualities at the door when they came to work. One of the aspects of my coaching work is to have people identify their great qualities and how to bring them out of the shadows.

Nice article and synopsis. Yes, releasing the energy we use to repress memories of childhood emotional traumas is huge.