The Shadow is named shame. It hides in the mirror calling for resolution. Often

cunning, sometimes illuminating and forever persistent, the shadow will prevail

until acknowledged and named.

It waits to be christened.

Those suffering from addictions and accompanying neurosis are often lost in the shadow,

seemingly unable to transcend its dominance and dark allure. Still, in those who aren't

irredeemably lost, there is often an intrinsic understanding, "a sense" of the absence