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Healing Trauma
The Elephant In The Sacred Medicine Room: TRAUMA
After a lot of ineffective therapy, I finally found a real trauma therapist who actually treats trauma, as a side effect of my Sacred Medicine research. I was motivated to do the deep shadow work not because I had cancer, but because my mother had just died of cancer, and I was reeling in the aftermath of losing the woman who had been my anchor in life….
But she didn’t offer me a quick fix. She didn’t wave her hands over me like a magic wand and promise to take away my pain forever. She warned me that what we were about to embark upon would be hard, but she sincerely believed it would liberate and transform me. She also said that the same process she would use with me was being used by herself and the therapists she had trained in her healing methods to sometimes reverse “incurable” diseases, including cancer….
Maybe this kind of quick fix is possible for those who are open to it. I can’t prove that all these doctors and healers who say trauma therapy is not necessary as part of an optimal treatment plan for illness are wrong. But what if they’re missing the holy grail?
Once we make peace with how slow and deliberate the healing process might be and grieve from the reality check on the other side of denial and magical thinking, we have cause to be hopeful. Because healing our trauma is often…
