Healing the Trauma of Abuse

Slide 1: What is it all about? How do we become loving, nurturing, compassionate people? One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. (Jung)

Slide 2: What is the Answer? • Face what you hide from yourself. (Perls) – Can you stand psychologically naked in the world? – Can you express your unbearable emotions? – Can you express you most unacceptable needs? • \"Open up to what is already inside--what actually is--feel it deeply, and learn to love it.\" Source: Gay Hendricks) • This implies (1) something is closed, (2) it is within, and (3) we need to accept what is there. • Questions: – Where are you at this moment? – What is most alive for you?

Slide 3: How do we open up? • Location. Location, location – Have the intention to place your awareness, your consciousness within