This is Josh Trent. Welcome to the Wellness and Wisdom podcast. This is a special solo cast where every Thursday I speak from the heart about a topic that I and we can all learn from that is both timeless and timely when it comes to our own journey of a life well lived. If you're brand new to the podcast, this may or may not be a perfect place for you to start. On Thursdays, I share an additional bonus episode,

either with myself or myself being interviewed, that I believe is of true value to all the five

sides of what we at Wellness and Wisdom call the Wellness Pentagon. These are the five sides of the

house we live in. They make up the quality of our life. So starting at the floor with our physical self, then moving up the walls to our mental and emotional, and finally building the roof of our spiritual and financial nourishment to us within ourselves so that essentially we can show up and love our life and love others. I've definitely learned by becoming a father and producing this podcast over almost 10 years with over 600

episodes that the true embodiment, this is key, the true embodiment of intelligence only comes

with time, compassion, and the work of integration. This is the only way I know it occurs.

And this is a topic today, what is truly happening in Palestine and Israel on a high

level, not a low level, this is not a political show. Today is about understanding how we navigate

the depths of humanity's shadow for lessons of self-love and most importantly, our collective

healing. Specifically, this episode is about our own spiritual development, this spiritual side of the wellness

Pentagon. Again, I'm not a political activist. I don't choose a side. I'm neither Republican or

Democrats. So none of this that you're going to hear today on the podcast has anything to do with

my political opinions. I'm simply a witness as you are of the shadow of humanity that is playing

out right now in the Middle East

with Palestine and Israel. Again, I want to remind you that none of this is my opinion of which

side is right or wrong, which side needs more resources, more attention. None of that's important,

actually. What is important is that we all learn individually and as a collective as to why war

exists in the first place, specifically wars

about religion or politics, which essentially always happen from a place of greed or control

or power.

Why is this?

My intention today is to explore my own personal and our collective wounding around the

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