We can’t begin to heal ourselves if we don’t know how to identify and move through our pain.

I had a pretty good childhood but there was still a fair amount of anxiety, fear, blame, and impatience thrown around.

There are small events and big events in life which leave us with psycho-emotional wounds to carry around. Often we have no idea these wounds are there because they only come to the surface when they're triggered.

I feel these wounds are a guaranteed part of life, unfortunately understanding and healing them is a different story.

As a kid I wasn't given the tools for healing and unless I went looking for them I wouldn't have any idea it was even possible to understand and heal my wounds.

This is a passionate episode. I share my thoughts and detail why I've dedicated my life to the discovery of tools both known and unknown.

Highlights and Takeaways

* We are all carrying some form of emotional or psychological pain. It's inherent to being a human being.

* As a kid I wasn't aware that there were things I could heal inside me.

* Writing and meditation are two powerful tools for healing.

* Writing makes it easier to understand our mental-emotional state.

* The body and mind naturally begin to clear when we take time to just be.

* I'm dedicated to discovering and sharing the most powerful tools.

* When we are feeling good about ourselves we can create beautiful things together.

* We haven't yet seen what we are capable of when we are working together in an environment of encouragement and support for each other.

Show Notes

We Hurt Each Other and We Don’t Even Know Why [01:01]

* I had a good childhood but still there was anxiety and unhappiness, fear and insecurity in my family.

* No one wants to feel hurt, no one wants to hurt someone else and yet we do it all the time.

* We haven’t been show in childhood how to identify our feelings and how to deal with them. That’s why they come out in angry or frustrated outbursts.

* This causes trauma. Trauma, small or big, builds up over time.

I Thought I Had Healed All the Things [03:57]

* I’ve dedicated a large part of my life to understanding my feelings: like why I react with fear in certain situations. I thought I knew what was going on.

* I’m still suffering from not accepting myself fully as I am right now. It’s affecting the way I share, it’s affecting my creativity and it’s affecting my relationships.

* I thought I had healed all the things because I was experiencing so much ease with partners and friends. But I’ve been reminded that I still have healing to do.

The healing process comes in waves.

* Something will trigger our psycho-emotional wounds and they come to the surface where we can begin to look at them. I’ve chosen to always look at these wounds so I can begin to heal them instead of push them down and repress them.

* We can always repress these wounds but there comes a point where the space we are storing all of our ‘stuff’ becomes full. Once this space is full they come to the surface and we can’t do anything except pay attention to them because they begin to greatly affect our everyday experience.

We Need to Know How to Heal Before We Can Heal [08:05]

* I am dealing with emotional wounds which affect my life but I haven’t been aware of the tools to heal these wounds. I know that I need to heal my emotional wounds but I don’t know how to do it.

* If these wounds are affecting my life but I don’t know how to heal them - then I need to go searchi...