Healing trauma involves recognizing, accepting, and moving through pain—clean pain. It often means facing what you don’t want to face—what you have been reflexively avoiding or fleeing. By walking into that pain, experiencing it fully, and moving through it, you metabolize it and put an end to it. In the process, you also grow, create more room in... See more
Choosing to Face Our Pain
I don’t have all the answers, and I get things wrong all the time. But I no longer fight against my nature. My life is filled with love, with deeply loving people, because I care too much. How could I resent that? My capacity to attach to others also my capacity to attach to the world.
— Ava
PRACTICE: Gratitude and the wound
connect the gratitude practice to that deep wounded part in you, let them meet, and let gratitude be thankful for the wounding, all of its deep discomfort and pain
- start to see how the world is supporting you, to see what’s coming in (like the love), see all the gifts that come in