Repressed Trauma Quiz

Our energy healing work is a circuitous path of hands-on sessions and then retreat to tend to our personal trauma healing. Healing does not mean cure. The energy of imbedded trauma is an ever-present shadow that requires the love and light of understanding and the challenging commitment of managing its many, and so often unrecognized, manifestations.
As seniors, we are acutely aware that many of us are suffering in dark silence from imbedded, unrecognized physical/emotional/sexual abuse trauma.
As we once again step onto the path of offering energy healing sessions, we are focusing on creating a safe and healing space for seniors to find their beautiful light beyond the shadows cast by traumatic abuse.
 
Sessions last approximately an hour and consist of an intuitive energy reading and a Reiki/Sound Bath treatment. If you schedule a session, please be prepared to interact and participate with the empowering process of healing.
 
Energy Healing Sessions
email us: Pk@anunobsturctedpath.net 
or use our contact page above.
Sundays @ 11 a.m.
Fee: $30 per individual session

​​Are you repressing trauma?

​Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences.
Two truths about trauma: Trauma does not discriminate. Trauma is pervasive throughout the world. 
While there is no criteria to evaluate what will cause post-trauma symptoms, situations typically involve the abuse of power, betrayal, helplessness, loss of control, and verbal or physical abuse. Traumatic situations can vary quite dramatically from person to person, and be defined by its response as well as its trigger.

• Do you trivialize being repeatedly hit, whipped, smacked, pinched, or beaten as a child?
•  Is there something that happened to you in your past that you are too ashamed of to reveal to a trustworthy loved one?  Have you persuaded yourself that you’ve moved on?
•  Do you have difficulty distinguishing between reasonable discipline and child abuse, especially when it comes to your experiences?
•  Do you believe that it is a betrayal to name a family member who seriously hurt you?
•  Did a parent(s) systematically punish you with silence and you have accepted this as appropriate?
•  Was a parent(s) indifferent to your presence, withholding affection and support?
•  As a young person, were you continually blamed for wrongdoings you did not do?
•  As a child were you refused a voice and forced to follow harsh, unreasonable rules?  Do you minimize the impact of this on your present life?
•  Were you repeatedly shamed and humiliated by an authority figure? 
•  Was the wrath of God used as a weapon against you to force you into obedience?
•  Do you feel powerless?
•  Were you ever coerced, manipulated, pressured, harassed, or forced into sexual acts?  Do you blame and degrade yourself for the incident(s)?  Have you convinced yourself that these events are unimportant and are all in the past?
•  Do you make excuses for a parent or a relative’s mistreatment of you?  Do you justify the abuse as deserved?
•  As you’ve aged, has fear, guilt, shame, sadness and/or anger increased/intensified?
•  Do you turn to food, drugs, alcohol, or other destructive behaviors to blunt emotional pain?
•  Do you compel yourself to adhere to strict religious doctrines in hopes of gaining God’s favor and forgiveness?  Do you mistreat yourself when you fall short?
•  Does the innocuous, annoying behavior of others—remarks, requests, conduct—often trigger intense reactions from you?
•  Do you feel lost?  Disconnected from your loved ones?  From your life?  From your authentic self? 
•  Do you demean yourself with cruel self-talk?
•  Do you feel unloved or unlovable?
•  Have any of these questions made you feel angry or uncomfortable?

 A "yes" answer to any of these questions suggests embedded trauma energy.  Trauma can be resolved.  Emotional harmony can be developed.  But support is vital.  With mentorship, you can build emotional freedom.  The power is within you.
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If forgiveness actually worked, It Would Be Obvious
 By khf
 Recently a victim of childhood sexual abuse revealed to me that she had “forgiven” the sexual brutalizer who also happened to be a close relative. And here is where the forgiveness protocol reveals itself as a universal lie.
 
She had taken ill, her body, mind and spirit weakened by fever and chills. In those moments of diminishment and vulnerability, the brutalizer’s shadow crawled in bed beside her dragging with him vivid, tormenting flashbacks of the violence he inflicted upon her all those years ago. Once again she was the helpless child—the brutalizer that she had “forgiven,” once more all powerful. The forgiveness doctrine exposed as no more than propaganda scribbled like graffiti across a derelict billboard. Meaningless words that offered no protection against the onslaught of her waking nightmares when she was in dire need.
 
Understanding trauma is to understand how energy works. Energy flows forward toward the horizon. That is always its purpose—to flow, to seek harmony.  Of course, energy can be blocked. Obstructed. Forced backward. Misused. But in its natural, uncorrupted state, energy flows freely into balance.
 
Energetic properties—undisputable spiritual characteristics of nature—eternally bind the principle of forgiveness to the resonance of truth. And that truth must be present, be absolute and self-evident within the individual. Forgiveness is resolution of harm, an evolution of consciousness. Forgiveness of abuse cannot be granted—that power does not lie with the victim of abuse or anyone else. The abuser must align with their own truth. Forgiveness, if it is to be, travels energetically from the victimizer to the victim. Not the other way around.
 
Forgiveness always requires action from the victimizer. It is the spiritual responsibility of the victimizer to acknowledge and accept liability for the abuse they perpetrated. The victimizer must embody deep contrition and demonstrate profound understanding of the consequences suffered by their victim. The victimizer must establish necessary behavior congruent with sincerity and compassion. And also must develop the courage and self-control to bear the entire burden of their abusive actions without further imposing their needs and will on their victim by begging for forgiveness. The likelihood of this occurring is slim to none.
 
No victim of violence is set free through the enforcement of the forgiveness myth. Force has no spiritual value, no evolutionary purpose. And yet, it is imposed on victims of violence as the path to freedom. If forgiveness actually worked, it would be obvious.
 
When you think of the person who so brutally violated you—when you say their name, when you hear their name—do you experience the wave and glow of peace surging throughout your body? All the way through to your mind and spirit? Does the radiance of freedom inspire your day?
 
I listened to her speaking about “forgiving” him of the violence against her little girl body. I listened as she recited the doctrine--the script—of forgiveness. I heard the tone of her voice, its volume. I listened to the words she chose to tell her story. I felt the abuser’s presence inside her middle aged body. It was painful. I wanted to cry.
 
When we, as victims of violence, dispense with the fantasy of forgiveness as the path to freedom, a brand new life opens up for us. A life brimming with possibilities. Personal empowerment. Creativity. And opportunities for profound understanding that draws our hearts toward the healing power of self love. We create our own freedom.