Shadow & Evil

Starting as a meditation on mortality after the illness and death of her husband, Margot Adler read more than 260 vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic. She began to wonder why vampires have such traction in our society.

Our shadow side comes to the surface in relationships more than anywhere else. The good news is that when we recognize and understand that, we can work with our tendency to project our shadow onto those with whom we’re in relationship.

Journey to the Dark Goddess will lead you on a powerful, healing path.

The shadow is a part of our unconscious mind consisting of repressed qualities (could be weaknesses as well as strengths) and dark (i.e. unconscious) instincts. “Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”

Examining the forces that drive people to commit acts of self-sabotage and self-destruction and offering a detailed prescription for avoiding a similar fate, Why Good People Do Bad Things exposes the pervasive, often hidden impulses that propel our everyday decisions.

Our true essence is hidden in the shadows of our own dramatic life stories, says Debbie Ford, author of the popular book The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, which introduced readers to their “shadow.”