Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
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Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
When we learn to work skillfully with our suffering, we are not only helping ourselves, we are also showing others that there is a way out of their own hurt.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
Trust heals doubt; diligence or energy transforms depression and apathy; mindfulness subdues impulsiveness and recklessness; concentration dispels distraction and avoidance; and insight or wisdom removes fear and hatred.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
Before we can try to help others, it is important to be able to address our own suffering and trauma, to face it, smile with it, breathe with it, embracing it day after day until it is no longer an enemy that we have to run away from, or a pool of sorrow to drown in.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
It is true that the cool waters of happiness are sweet and precious, but it is suffering that carves our cup.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
Self-love, to me, is every moment that we are mindful of our body, of our thoughts, of our feelings, breathing with what is arising without grasping or aversion.
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
“Just breathe, it’s okay, I love you. Everything is okay, I’m still here.”
Sister Dang Nghiem • Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness
Meditation is a process of self-discovery, but it must be grounded in genuine self-love for it to be healing.