Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.

I'm your host Thomas Mconke. Thank you so much for listening.

It's good to be back.

This is becoming one of my favorite times of the week to gather some content that I think

will really help you go more deeply into your prayer life to really strengthen your connection

with the divine.

And as I do that, it's very much deepening my

prayer life so I'm grateful to have the space to share with you. Thank you for being an audience

for showing up and giving me the occasion to do so. So I will say right after last week's episode on Your Body as Prayer, which if you missed, I quite like that episode.

I quite love living life with my body as prayer, so you could go back and listen if you haven't.

But right after I recorded, I had this kind of ugh moment like, oh no, I forgot to say something

so important and not just one thing, but something so important that it felt like it necessitated

an entire episode.

So in this episode, I want to talk in two parts.

The first part about what I'm going to call

trauma-sensitive practice, and the second part, which works in tandem with the first part,

divine therapy. Both of these concepts are going to be very clear by the end of the show.

Starting with trauma-sensitive practice, what I want to say is that in past episodes,

I have said things like, you know, come to stillness, close your eyes, relax into the sensations of breathing,

the body, the body is a lovely place to be, and so on and so forth. And this is true. The body is a

lovely, luxurious, sumptuous, blessed place to be, except when it's not. There are times when the

body's not at all a refuge and when the body doesn't at all feel like a safe place to be.

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