The Dark Side: How Shadow Work Led to Self Forgiveness

Originally published at https://www.splicetoday.com.

CW: Creepy behavior and TERFs

Melissa Febos did a TED Talk years ago about the liberating power of confessing secrets. She tells her creative nonfiction students to look at themselves not as how they want to be seen, “but to look until all of that superficial layer falls away and we can…