“The shadow, in simple terms, is a personification of complex emotions we can’t easily process. As mentioned before, as children, we could only understand things on a superficial level, and in turn, all experiences difficult to process, like traumatic experiences and negative events, get compartmentalized and mashed together in the shape of our personal shadow. Normally, we see a shadow as bad because it’s dark and evil in most media, but at its core, a shadow is just a mirrored version of you that mimics you.”