Listener question: I have a question about trauma which i’m sure you’ve been asked many times before but it’s one that keeps coming up in the work that i do so would welcome your thoughts. 

If someone has suffered with trauma in early life, be it physical or sexual abuse or emotional neglect, is there a need to “heal the trauma” ?  

John Welwood who coined the phrase “ Spiritual Bypassing “  said that you need to do the work, whereas more radical non dual teachers like Tony Parsons would say not because there is no self there only what’s arising.  

To talk to a client who has suffered from childhood abuse from a non dual perspective, even when they have some insight, is challenging.   

How to you approach early childhood trauma from a non dual perspective ?