Today I only read and engaged with your words that sandwiched the AAs.

As you point out, there is no substitute for putting in the work oneself. In my https://medium.com/paper-poetry/poetic-reflections-on-our-shadows-and-who-captains-our-ships-b4eaed76f417, is this tanka:

shadow work is hard

any progress is perfect

expect steps backward

aware movement matters most

exert mind body and soul

and this stanza in my haiku sonnet therein:

completeness will come

look deeply and do the work

hieros gamos sums