22/08/2020
The issues of mental health/illness have been in the forefront of news as the US experienced a crisis never experienced before in history. Millions of people were affected by one crisis simultaneously; the pandemic.
This can be a time and place in which people feel the mental, emotional, spiritual or physical effects of stress. Stuck in a place of immobility, feeling low and depleted of energy as isolation, new rules/changes our sense of humanity.
Life has a way of challenging our reality. The daily routine can be abruptly halted by the unexpected. Our way of thinking, forges through territory that is sometimes painful. All of us will face an event/stress/trauma/hurt in our lifetime. The author of, The Change Triangle calls these events, little "t" or big "T" meaning trauma. Life events are on a spectrum; minor issues that are easily resolved, or through major issues that set our body into the upper threshold of cortisol response.
When symptoms of stress become chronic, or the resolve is hampered by complexities, the emotional, physical, spiritual state send warning signs to increase our awareness/attention. It is time to go back to the pain, sort, process and make sense of trauma. Only going through the pain can we experience the event as a frame of time in life rather than an ongoing reaction. Only then can we ask the question, "what have I learned from this event?" We cannot ask this prematurely, but in time and in distance we can look in the rearview mirror this time, not in reactivity but in maturity, understanding the facts and the truth about the trauma.
Bring all the spiritual, physical, emotional and psychological resources together our spirit can heal.
