Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. . . . Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.
We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.