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Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

~Shannon L. Alder

Trauma lives in all of us.

There is the trauma of our lived experiences of abuse, neglect, accidents, surgeries, violence, loss (and it’s related grief), betrayal and more.  These experiences may be singular events or may be chronic, occurring multiple times.

There is the trauma of our ancestors, passed down to us through both our DNA and the ways our family of origin interacted with us.

There is the trauma of living in an oppressive, authoritarian, misogynist, racist, capitalist society that encourages us to isolate, to separate, to be disconnected from our communities and our Core Self –body, mind, spirit, and soul (What I call Cultural Relational Trauma).

These traumas lives in our bodies.  It courses through our nervous systems and burrows into our skin, our muscle, our sinew.  It is encoded in our DNA.  It is cellular memory…