Captured Moments

Traumas can hide themselves deep within our human systems and memories.  The traumas we experience, sustain and maintain may have happened a long, long time ago.  They may be so hidden we forgot they were there.  In any case, most traumas are most reluctant to come forward. Perhaps it is embarrassment, maybe it is shame, it could be deep fear.  It is possible the trauma makes us feel too vulnerable, too exposed or too weakened.  Therefore, the last thing we want to do is reveal it to anyone, including ourselves. But just like anything or anyone hidden away in the depth of anything, eventually, it wants to seek the Light of day and come out from hiding.  It wants to surface again so that the needed and necessary healing and clarity can come.  Once that happens, the balance can occur because it is time for that to integration towards wholeness to happen. It will take courage and determination to allow the trauma or the traumatic event to begin moving...

Like a light, illuminating a long standing pond, one can finally see what kinds of rocks, sticks, moss, debris and toxic waste has been sitting there, waiting to be purified out.  If we don't look, if we don't investigate, if we don't remain curious, we might not ever see it.  If we remain blind to it or in denial of it or continue to look the other way, we lose a wonderful opportunity to clear out what is no longer useful, needed or wanted and therefore, what we can now consciously clear, clean and restore. When we are small, we can get our feelings hurt in big ways and small ways and often later, we don't realize we have stuffed them down really, really deep. We also don't realize we can fix and release those hurts and slights.  We don't think about releasing them so they can no longer impact us in negative and harmful ways. When we take and make the time to be bold and focused, we can sit in contemplation and remember what may have impacted us before.  We...