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When Helping Others Reveals Your Own Shadow

I volunteer at a homeless shelter but secretly judge the people I'm helping and hate myself for feeling superior to them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The helper persona masks unconscious superiority complexes that split self from shadow projections.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jungian archetypes and the collective unconscious?”

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