Choosing to Face Our Pain
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Choosing to Face Our Pain
In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this ... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
I would say that an honest assessment would reveal that all of us have caused harm, some of which has been systematized and sustained. And all of us need healing in our lives. Recognize that the healing need is a universal one, and tell yourself the truth about your parts of that.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
Stuart Evans added
“The first step toward healing in mind and body is knowing what you’re dealing with — identifying the unresolved trauma.”
Dr. Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Jennifer Baez added
whatever it is we need to identify what we run to for comfort when we feel afraid. Most people aren’t even aware that they’re running to it. As we become aware and stop running to it, the pain comes to the surface and we can process it.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
juarry added
What we need is a culture where the common experience of trauma leads to a normalization of healing. Being able to say: I have good reasons to be scared of the dark, of raised voices, of being swallowed up by love, of being alone. And being able to offer each other: “I know a healer for you.” “I’ll hold your hand in the dark.” “Let’s begin a medita
... See moreadrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
Healing demands that we learn how to be intimate with one another. We must also start listening and responding to the various clamoring parts of ourselves. But to respond in the present, we need to learn not to be overtaken by past traumas.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
From there, we can learn how to heal from our past and integrate new (and healthier) ways of dealing with our problems.
Ron Vitale • 30 Days of Gratitude: A Daily Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
From there, we can learn how to heal from our past and integrate new (and healthier) ways of dealing with our problems.