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Trauma as a Spiritual Journey
I just finished watching a series of talks on The Wisdom of Trauma, hosted by the SAND organization and Gabor Mate. It was phenomenal. The talks pushed a million buttons, incited tears, anger, and joy. The premier of the movie was incredibly motivating.
Trauma has been the entire spectrum from a bubbling-under-the-surface volcano to a full-on explosive one throughout my life. I manage PTSD on a daily basis, like many others.
It is no ones business what happened to get me to that point, because it really doesn’t matter. What really matters is what I am doing with it; what this trauma has taught me and motivates me to do with my life.
So I write. I listen. I love people. I love them in their pain and in their joy. It has taught me about how my personal access to empathy is a healing agent in other people’s lives. There is nothing more amazing to me than when people share hard things with me.
What do I look for in life now that I understand the traumas of my younger self/married self? If I look closely enough, I can see all of the reasons I chose what I did, how I got into all of the messes I got into, and how much of what I ended up with was nothing like a conscious choice.
Being able to move forward in my life, trying to keep the perspective taught to me in my therapy sessions has been…
