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From Wound to Wisdom: Ungoliant as Melkor's Shadow Self

From Wound to Wisdom: Ungoliant as Melkor's Shadow Self

Unless we own our shadow self, it will consume us.

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Dean Graziosi, the legendary business coach, says he became a highly effective salesman because of his alcoholic father. When he was a boy, he had to “guess his violent father’s erratic moods.”

From early on, he had developed an ability to predict his father’s next move, which allowed him to avoid harm. He became so good at it that eventua…

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