Goldmining the Shadows

Lighthorse, Pixie.  Goldmining the Shadows: Honoring the Medicine of Wounds.  Foreword by Shannon Thompson.  Row House Publishing, 2022 (Hardcover w/o dj).

When working through and with your shadow self, it becomes helpful, if not healing, to recognize how the hurts of your past have given you the medicine to heal.  As Lighthorse suggests, by honoring the medicine of your wounds you "take responsibility for the parts of yourself you are most driven to deny—to be accountable for what might lie outside of your awareness.”

Pixie Lighthorse is the pen name of Cherie Dawn Carr who has written seven books focusing on self-healing by developing your relationship with the natural world.  She is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.  She writes as Lighthorse to honor the unheard voices of her ancestors, who were forcibly removed from their homelands during the first of many Trails of Tears.  Lighthorse currently resides in the Pacific Northwest.

Mara Evenstar highly recommends this book as a companion text to her course Shadow work through the Chakras.