Empaths often struggle with setting emotional boundaries because of their sensitivity. When they come in close contact with others, those people tend to overshare their personal and often traumatic life events. While empaths may feel discomfort or confusion about this information, they also feel an overwhelming urge to help or rescue the person sharing their experience. Unfortunately, this connection can leave empaths feeling deprioritized as a person.
Read MoreThe mother wound is a central childhood trauma theme. This is significant because whether you feel like you had a terrible mother experience or if you believe that you had a wonderful experience, when examining your childhood as a method of self-awareness or as a result of your spiritual awakening, it is important to contemplate the role your mother played in your childhood, and the impact of her influence.
Read MoreSeeking to find a partner is a natural adult milestone. Many people have grown up with the idea that they need to find a partner, and it is ingrained into our belief systems through our traditions and religions. You can easily see that in the increase in popularity of reality dating shows, and even shows that are centered on arranged marriages. But, committing to a partner is a huge undertaking.
Read MoreIt’s been 20 years since the attacks on the twin towers, and the perception of Muslims has changed very little. While we are seemingly and very outwardly making empathy and healing our top priority now, how are we as a collective still unwilling to shift our perspective of our Muslim neighbors entirely?
Whether you are more financially successful than your parents were at their age has no bearing on how and where your trauma will manifest. Becoming more successful faster was most likely the sacrifice in emotional growth that your parents had to make to drive your educational and financial gain. There aren't enough upgrades you can do socially, financially, or in environments that will interrupt any pattern of trauma if there isn't an emotional upgrade within.
At some point, we have to stop and ask ourselves, “how does looking outside of ourselves heal the inside?We often look to these external actions like guidance, bodywork, talk therapy, and energy work as the definition of growth rather than an access point. However, any external practice is only as successful as it produces a change in your mindset, not just your actions. So, for example, if you show up slimmer or more relaxed with the same pattern of thought that kept you stuck, your energy is unchanged.
Honestly, most boundary-setting conversations start poorly, which is why the result is disconnection. The outcome of a boundary conversation should always be a deeper connection to who you are by expressing what feels most aligned for you. Instead, we often began difficult discussions as if it is our one chance to show up authentically.
Read MoreWe must recognize how the previous lessons that we either refused to accept or where oblivious to see create the reality of love we currently exist in. I would venture to say that the true key to manifesting love, is having a keen awareness of the maturity it takes to accept another soul being intertwined with yours. It should be lost on no one that love is called a “union of two souls”.
Read MoreIn trauma, many adverse conditions and characteristics control the daily life of this unhealed soul. Many people can relate to Munchhausen's Syndrome as an extreme example of the wounded mother, but this is not the only way this persona interacts. Certainly, unhealed wounded souls negatively affect the people around them. But the wounded mother stands out because there is a severe impact on the children she bears.
Read MoreLove isn’t as natural as it once was to attract, or so it seems. Millennials have changed what it means to be in a relationship and define yourself as an individual. Honestly, our parents didn’t prepare us for attracting relationships and creating a connection on the Internet.
Read More“A lot of resistance lives in the emotion of fear. Fear of loss, fear of losing favor with others, fear of rejection, fear of not being included, fear of eternal singledom, but are these fears real, or simply what we believe to be true? Our thoughts and emotions guide our actions. But, when we realize we are stuck, we innately blame. It’s always someone else.”
Read MoreActive growth reassures the soul of advancement, of the possibility to take on a higher form and be among the natural soul family. Any incarnation is limited; growth must be sought after and balanced with the circumstances to come into wisdom and to succeed in this state of being.
Our emotions are holding us back from evolution in our relationships. Many of us fail in our emotional landscapes because we were never permitted to just be as children. We have emotionally unavailable parents, and we avoid therapy like the plague.
The important thing is not how you relate to or define trauma to make it comfortable for you to accept the hurt, pain, or obstacles you have experienced in this incarnation, but to know that trauma is not held in a singular aspect of our lives. We can have many traumatic experiences or situations in our lives that, over time, block us from who we really are. It is our inability and our unwillingness to identify and release the trauma that keeps us emotionally blocked.
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