Beautifully, compassionately, and wisely said. Conscious awareness of the truth illuminated here is deeply needed. May David's compassionate wisdom inform, inspire, and touch the hearts of us all. ― Molly
By David Bedrick
THINKING ABOUT TRAUMA AND TULSA YESTERDAY, I was moved to edit a post I wrote last year.
"When an individual is deeply injured as a child, abused and traumatized, a soul-wound enters their body and psyche.
If they are witnessed with love ― the story of the violence is told, they are believed, and they are offered protection, reparation, and compassion ― healing begins.
If not, the trajectory of their lives will be altered - the wound becomes part of the fabric of their lives, impacting everything they feel, think, and do, manifesting in painful patterns of violence, addictions, and dis-regulating feeling states.
The same is true for a nation.
The United States, in her "white European" infancy, perpetrated a great injury, a traumatizing abuse upon the indigenous population and Africans brought here in shackles or murdered along the way.
This nation is wounded, soul-wounded, effecting everything she does, impacting earth and sky, animals and plants, systems of oppression and marginalization, international relations, and every human being.
I, and my white sisters and brothers, have the sacred task to not only end the present wounding, breaking down the caste that has become normalized, but to bear witness to our history, our story.
We must do this for our nation, for our sisters and brothers of color, AND we must do this for ourselves.
Why for ourselves? Because our individual souls are also wounded. And if we long for our own spiritual and psychological development, we must locate the soul-illness that resides in us as individuals and find a path to that healing.
And please know, this is not a path of self-hatred, self-shame, or akin to the abusive inner-criticism most of us experience.
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