We recognize healing trauma requires facing and moving through pain we've avoided. By fully experiencing that clean pain, we metabolize and end it. This grows our capacity, creates more flow and coherence in our nervous systems, and builds our ability for further growth. Healing means choosing integrity over fear, letting go of the familiar but harmful, and leaping into the unknown without guarantees. This doesn't happen mentally but physically in our bodies able to stay settled amid conflict and uncertainty. Emerging, we feel more settled, present, free, and able to move with a sense of flow. We've grown. The way forward is unknown but requires standing in integrity, accepting discomfort, and moving ahead.
May we have the courage to face the unavoidable pains of life,
metabolize them fully in our bodies, and emerge
with greater integrity, presence, and capacity for growth.
(inspired by: Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands; Richard Rohr, Trauma)