I agree with much of what is written here, especially about the effects of trauma on shrinking the soul. Perhaps it’s just a slightly different perspective, but I feel that working with the soul is an inside job, and that the effects of that will/ may lead to a more beautiful community.(only if that is the goal of the majority) For it to work in the reverse, the “holding community” must be free from their own traumas, and I think we have a ways to go before we achieve that. I personally have worked with communities, as well as individual “healers” who I eventually came to realize, are limited in their ability to guide and hold me, based on how far they’ve been willing to go in their own healing. Thank you for stimulating this awareness in me this morning.
On Feb 4, 2021 Sue wrote:
I agree with much of what is written here, especially about the effects of trauma on shrinking the soul. Perhaps it’s just a slightly different perspective, but I feel that working with the soul is an inside job, and that the effects of that will/ may lead to a more beautiful community.(only if that is the goal of the majority) For it to work in the reverse, the “holding community” must be free from their own traumas, and I think we have a ways to go before we achieve that. I personally have worked with communities, as well as individual “healers” who I eventually came to realize, are limited in their ability to guide and hold me, based on how far they’ve been willing to go in their own healing.
Thank you for stimulating this awareness in me this morning.