Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places (2017-03-08) - Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffering that arise from trauma and how meditation practices can support a path to full spiritual healing. We focus on practices that help us access a sense of love and safety, and then increase our capacity to bring presence to the unprocessed, unlived life in the body. (Note: For many who suffer from PTSD, therapy is invaluable and these practices are not considered as a substitute.)
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:07.0 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference. |
| 0:12.1 | To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com. |
| 0:27.8 | Namaste and welcome. |
| 0:31.8 | I often talk about trance, so I thought I'd start tonight with a, |
| 0:36.8 | an illustrative story, and this was shared by a mom who very much is into organic foods |
| 0:44.8 | and a healthy lifestyle and describes one evening when she hadn't had time to get to the grocery store |
| 0:50.8 | and she was exhausted and I'll read what she writes. |
| 0:53.8 | She sent this recently as an email to me. |
| 0:57.8 | She says, I looked for what we could possibly eat for dinner and thank goodness there was a frozen pizza in the freezer. |
| 1:03.8 | Okay guys, we're going to have frozen pizza for dinner. |
| 1:06.8 | I tried to keep the guilt out of my voice that it wasn't going to be handmade, homemade, organic, with love meal. |
| 1:12.8 | My son instantly resisted, but I don't want frozen pizza. |
| 1:16.8 | I remained calm and said that that's what we're having tonight. |
| 1:19.8 | And he remained resistant getting more and more upset on the verge of a tantrum. |
| 1:24.8 | I don't want frozen pizza. I don't want frozen pizza. |
| 1:27.8 | I tried to remain calm and repeat out loud a calm mantra. |
| 1:31.8 | This is dinner tonight. It's what we have in the house. |
| 1:34.8 | It'll be okay if you ever had frozen pizza all the while going crazy in my mind. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm such a bad mom. Of course my kids don't like frozen pizza. |
| 1:43.8 | I don't like it either. I'm doing the best I can and I'm falling short today. |
| 1:47.8 | But it's the best I can. And I've created a monster of a child who'll only eat healthy organic homemade food. |
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