Emotional baggage is never just ‘bad memories’; it’s soul weight. It’s the psychic gunk that clings to your inner world like mould in a damp basement. Sometimes it whispers as self-doubt. Sometimes it screams as reactivity, addiction, sabotage, or shutdown. But no matter how it shows up, it’s a parasite feeding off your freedom.
This shadow practice invites you to walk through your emotional graveyard, not to mourn, but to liberate. To exorcise, not to exile. To find out what’s still rotting in your gut… and bury it properly.
Core Ideas:
- Emotional baggage is soul clutter: undigested pain.
- Shedding it means facing it, not bypassing it.
- Emotional liberation is earned, not gifted.
- The lightness that follows is the real you returning.
Shadow Writing Prompts
Prompt -10a: Shedding the Past
Recall a moment when you released a piece of emotional baggage that had defined you—an old hurt, belief, or identity. What triggered the release? Describe how it felt in your body and consciousness to finally let it go.
Prompt -10b: The Weight You Didn’t Know You Carried
Describe a time you realised you were carrying emotional baggage you hadn’t even been aware of: perhaps something inherited, absorbed, or repressed. How did it affect your behaviour, and what was the process of waking up to it?
Prompt -10c: Living Without It
How has your life changed since shedding that emotional burden? What new energy, space, or clarity has emerged? How has it helped you live more honestly, more lightly, more you?
Prompt -10d: The Practice of Release
What practices—rituals, habits, inner work—have helped you let go? How can you continue to integrate emotional shedding into your life rhythmically, instead of waiting for breakdowns to force it?
The soul knows when it’s time to clean house.
Now pick up the broom, burn the trash, and claim your clarity.
