What identity do you need to heal. What identity have you took on that belongs to someone else? Exploring identity archetypes and why we hold on to identities and archetypal patterns that keep us small.
What Identity Helps You Feel Safe?
We all have identities that someone else has placed on to us. Identities that mask who we truly are.
Identities we have come to believe or hold onto because it makes us feel safe or we simply don’t know ourselves enough.
Some of these archetypal patterns and traits have served and protected us on some level at certain times in our life, but in many other ways keep us small and in self-sabotage until we start to awaken and evolve to who we truly are.
When we begin to awaken, we begin to face and see ourself our identities through different eyes.
That awareness starts the healing process but shifting through it, isn’t always easy for so many reasons.
What Keeps Us Stuck In A Specific Identity?
So many things can keep us very attached to certain identities. One common thing that keeps so many of us stuck, is distorted cultural, societal or family dynamics that projected these identities on to you.
Because when one person begins to break free, heal and evolve from those unhealthy patterns, start to let go of those unhealthy false identities that has been attached to them by others.
The shift often begins to challenge the whole family dynamics, even if it is at an unconscious level, at it’s core it challenges the status quo at a micro and whole level and the one who walks their own path to heal becomes the Scapegoat.
It is one of the reasons why certain individuals in a society or family who maintain certain behaviours or beliefs are regarded as the Golden Children and while others who challenge the status quo, speak up or speak truth become the Scapegoats in so many areas of society.
We All Get Stuck In Identity
No matter how unhealthy those distortions are in any group, no matter how many shadows are in the closets. The tribe or family will often do anything to maintain their identity, will go to great lengths to control or justify their beliefs, their patterns.
Until they themself have no choice have to face their own light and shadow. That is why the Scapegoat Archetype has so much to teach us right now about identity, truth, discernment and spiritual strength and power.
Which my lovely friend Caroline Tobin shares more about in the podcast on the Discerning Scapegoat
Identity Archetypes
But in reality every identity archetype can help shine the light on the identities we feel that are innate or those that play out, to help keep us safe, protected, loved, respected, valued, honoured, employable.
Whether we identity as the victim, the mother, father, the hero, the healer, the leader, the ruler, the clown, the wise crone, the golden child or even scapegoat.
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