Why do we run from our [Psychological] shadows in life; how can we learn to embrace them instead?

We run from what we fear, and we fear it because we don't understand it, or rather, we don't WANT to understand it. I fear my darkness, because in it out of the ordinary. We all want to be perfect, so we try and separate ourselves from what isn't prefect. Embracing our shadows is just something that requires a lot of work.