Choosing to Face Our Pain

seek to help you, and warn you, so you can release yourself from the path of pain and suffering. Many things have been forgotten and lost under the layers of conditioning that have resulted from repeating and repeating re-enactments of old misunderstandings.

See, trauma is not limited to extreme events like rape, war, or a horrific accident. There is something more common we call relational trauma, which is the result of overwhelming and painful interactions and adverse childhood experiences (including experiences in utero) where we couldn’t fully process the energy of the moment.

Since time immemorial, people have attempted to cope with powerful and terrifying feelings by doing things that contradict perceptions of fear and helplessness: religious rituals, theater, dance, music, meditation and