09/05/2024
https://wholehumanhealing.com/2022/01/abandoning-perfection-and-reclaiming-ourselves/
Because the truth is that it simply does not work to use our critical minds to talk ourselves out of a story we are telling ourselves with our critical minds. Instead we need to go to where the root of that painful story sits–to the fear, the shame, the rage and often also the shock that is held in our tissues, our nervous systems, our bones and muscles, sometimes in our very organs. We need to bring our most compassionate witness to our bodies, to where we hold restriction or pain because our aliveness has gotten blocked. Listening to the body, we can call every part of ourselves back to the truth, which is that there is nothing wrong with us, that our worth as human beings has nothing to do with all the critical judgements that hold us hostage to an impossible standard, that our value is vast beyond measure.
In my eight years of working with clients, I have witnessed how profound changes can occur in a single healing session. I have also witnessed how the journey home to ourselves from repeated stress and trauma takes patience, time, and a whole lot of compassion. Opening to healing often takes a willin...
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