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True To Our Nature
‘’When you heal trauma, you do so for past, present, and future generations. It is not work for the faint-hearted. Relationship dynamics, behaviours, thoughts, identity, and life purpose are all detoxed, recalibrated, realigned. Boundaries are negotiated and set, then renegotiated and set again. In committing to resolving trauma I have had to finally and fully incarnate….These dark and formidable energies and role models have walked me back along ancestral lines (deep into the collective wounding) and journeyed me to past lives, reminding me of the current ‘mission’ many of my contemporaries also have — to clear out and exorcise the violence, cruelty, harm, denigration, rape, and violation of the feminine, the body and the earth. Through the personal healing of any one of us there is a restoration of life, a voice, embodiment.’’
-Kay Louise Aldred, excerpt from Re-membering with Goddess Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma:
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand…”
— Henri Nouwen
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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that…
