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Oh sure, sure. I didn't necessarily do the literature, but for the past five or six years I've been focusing on healing from a lot of childhood trauma that really affected my quality of life. And after finally seeing a proper trauma specialist, that's culminated in showing more mindfulness whenever that trauma crops back up. I'm more reliably able to consciously recognize triggers in the moment, and process the situation so it doesn't stay a present threat and make future triggers compound.
So since all of our behaviors develop from our accumulated life experience, processing those repressed parts of ourselves and gaining that level of understanding makes integrating them that much easier. Just like, asking yourself questions like what those parts even are, why we keep them repressed, when we could have started repressing them, if we see those parts in other people, the negative and positive aspects, etc.
And of course, there's no use beating yourself up if you're ashamed of your shadow; self harm's stupid when you're always around the person you're hurting.