Welcome to Beneath the Surface: Shadow Work for the Misunderstood & Overlooked. This is a no-fluff, trauma-informed journey to reclaim your voice, worth, and soul truth. You’ll face your patterns, meet your inner child, and come home to yourself. This isn’t for the faint of heart — it’s for the ones who feel too much and still show up.

📘 CORE LESSON SUMMARY: Everyone has a "love cup" — our sense of internal worth, connection, and emotional safety. Emotional neglect can be subtle or overt. Both can create lasting damage. Kids who are emotionally intelligent, hyper-aware, or sensitive are often punished or dismissed instead of nurtured. Being called a "know-it-all" or "too much" teaches you to silence your truth in order to feel accepted. Shadow work helps you uncover these early cracks and the beliefs they created.

📘 CORE LESSON SUMMARY: Love leaks out through cracks formed in childhood (neglect, over-responsibility, emotional abandonment). Shame scripts are internal narratives we unconsciously live by, often formed before age 10. These scripts are not your fault, but they are your responsibility to rewrite. You may have inherited generational pain, perfectionism, or martyrdom as part of your programming. Naming the script is the first step to reclaiming your truth.

📘 CORE LESSON SUMMARY: The Inner Critic is an internalized protector, not a villain. Coping Casts are roles we step into to get our needs met: the overachiever, the clown, the caretaker, the avoidant, etc. These roles formed because authenticity felt unsafe. Your coping self may have helped you survive, but it’s not meant to run your life now. You can honor its job while gently stepping back into your true identity.