Our emotional wounds can attach to physical injuries or even to diseases. This pattern is often buried deep within the psyche and hard to identify.

Why is presence so hard to achieve? Why can't we still our minds and rest into the peace that we know, in theory, is possible if we could only be present?

What if you look at fear as nothing more than an energy? It’s a damaging energy to dwell in for too long because it creates contraction and inhibits our functioning at every level.

Now’s a good time to talk about intense emotions – the kind that swell and threaten to drown us. When we can’t bear witness, hold ourselves and let the wave of emotion move through us, it gets diverted.

It’s possible to move through suppressed pain with authenticity and grace. 

When it comes to our personal health, our focus is often what’s going on in our body in the present. Health practitioners take into consideration genetics and the diseases that run in our families, but something that’s not often given attention is how our ancestral load plays a role in our current health landscape.

Trauma that we experienced in childhood can continue to consume part of our vital life energy today.

There are certain conditions from which we can’t heal and there’s no disputing it, it’s black and white.

Our emotional wounds can attach to physical injuries. This pattern is often buried deep within the psyche and hard to identify.

All those considerations are valid. I’ve seen many posts about each of these factors.

There's a paradigm shift that happens when we learn to sooth ourselves and go within to seek comfort.

People seem to limit their definition of trauma to extreme events like sexual abuse, physical violence or overt acts of aggression. I find that my patients' health is inhibited by much more ordinary daily trauma.