19. Re-framing Trauma

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not  the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they  induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the  world and her situation in it. All too often these ill-conditioned implicit beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives. We  create meanings from our unconscious interpretation of early events, and  then we forge our present experiences from the meaning we’ve created.  Unwittingly, we write the story of our future from narratives based on  the past...Mindful awareness can bring into consciousness those hidden, past-based perspectives so that they no longer frame our  worldview. Choice begins the moment you dis-identify from the mind and  its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present…Until you reach  that point, you are unconscious. …In present awareness we are liberated  from the past.”    -Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts  Check out what I'm up to here:  https://www.instagram.com/nurse_nell/ https://www.lifenursenell.com/ https://calendly.com/nursenell/coaching