To live with an open heart sounds like a lovely way to live, doesn’t it? It’s something I’ve been inching my way toward. Keeping our hearts open is an easy thing to say, a harder thing to do. This last month, after having been on the first of 4 retreats I’ll do in the next [...]
The terror that people with difficult histories experience can be seen as a spiritual break that completely disorganizes us from what should be. What gets broken with trauma is the primordial awareness that we are safe, loved, that all is okay. Attachment theory helps us understand how that happens at a level way before [...]