Chemsex can strip away your defenses and flood you with disowned parts of yourself you're not ready to face. Real shadow work means intentionally building a relationship with those parts instead of being overwhelmed by them, which requires preparation and conscious engagement in recovery.
So if we are in a chemsex context, what then happens? All that stuff comes out within a chemsex context because it's almost like, you know, the, the guards have gone away. Yeah. So then it all comes forth, you know, and what then happens is we end up having a confrontation with some of our shadow elements, you know, but we're not prepared to do it. We're not psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, if you like, prepared to be able to have that confrontation. You know, there's a lot of power there, so we end up becoming Flooded by it. So rather than these kind of elements being our possession, they kind of flood us. They kind of move in and sort of take over. So when we're doing, doing shadow work, what we're actually doing is really trying to formulate a relationship with these aspects, you know, because they're essentially, they're disowned aspects, put simply. Yeah. Does that, does that make sense? Yeah.
