We Must Never Accept or Normalize the Violence of Dehumanization

I fact checked the quote shared here because it is so over the top violent, outrageous, misogynistic, psychopathic, hateful, and insane. And it’s true. This profoundly wounded, delusional, and dangerous “expert” really said this. We must NEVER accept or normalize this level of dehumanization and violence directed at anyone much less someone who embodies the integrity, courage, activism, and fierce love that Greta Thunberg does. This madness is NOT OKAY! 😠

Tragically there are countless human beings who have deep unaddressed ancestral and cultural trauma. They are severed from the wisdom of their hearts and are compelled to project their self-loathing and violence and other symptoms of trauma onto others. Their deep untreated trauma is what makes them so profoundly dangerous and incapable of empathy and compassion. 

My own mother was tragically once this narcissistic with devastating consequences to our family. Through my own deeply empowering and transformative healing work that I have engaged in over the decades it is this exactly this understanding of trauma which has freed me to respond — most of the time — to the horrors of our times with compassion and consciousness and a refusal to return hatred with more hatred.

That said, and while some of us are capable of doing the deep work of healing and transforming trauma, some of us aren’t. My twin brother committed suicide many years ago. He was among those who couldn’t. John's tortured life was also largely connected to the impact of on him of our severely wounded and narcissistic mother. The challenge, I believe, is for us to not judge and dehumanize anyone and, for those of us who are able, to heal the trauma we carry in our hearts and ground ourselves in fierce love.

Bless us all,

Molly