My shadow work journal

I haven’t posted about shadow work in a minute and here is why.

I needed to hop in for a quick shower. My dog, who is still young, has been on his best behavior recently. Hasn’t had any accidents, has only been chewing his toys, and all around has just been good. Instead of putting him in his crate like I normally do when I shower, I let him chill in the living room.

While I was in the shower, 15 minutes turned into 30 when I decided I needed to take an everything shower, and 30 turned into 45 when my husband called after I got out.

When I came back out, my shadow work journal was chewed on the ground. Some pages torn, the cover nasty, and the bottom corner practically has a hole through it.

I was devastated. This journal has been extremely helpful to me. I wasn’t ready to throw it away or get a new one as I’m not even half way through the journal prompts.

However, I took a step back. The way to book looks doesn’t matter. What matters is the function. The cover doesn’t matter, the pages that were torn are pages that I’ve already read, and can very easily be taped, the pages that I’m not done with or may need to go back to are perfectly fine, and the pages are not destroyed, just bent.

This journal doesn’t need to be perfect. It is literally teaching you to accept the imperfections of you, so why shouldn’t I accept the imperfections of it. She needs a little patch work, but some duck tape, a little glue, and a magic marker will have my journal back to its functioning purpose. So to dollar general I go

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