to get through this : some reflections on the spiral of healing

I wrote this a while back… its a good reminder to me reading it today that old memories do recycle.. as part of our soul journey we revisit critical transitions over and over as we grow and age

Emerging From The Dark Night

To get through this we will have to find the path that takes us into the past but does not keep us going endlessly round and round in circles

And yet (but/and) the paradox is that the healing path is a spiral in that we do go round and round and round and over and over and over the same issues and past experiences but hopefully with each turn of the spiral integrating more into our body by releasing it, while coming (at the same time) to understand the deeper meaning or implications of it. The critical thing with the spiral though is that it can go up and down just as the trauma spiral can spin either clockwise or counter closewise.

So some of the time on our healing journey we lose perspective and seem to be sucked back under into a trauma vortex or black hole where the…

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"The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us." Ursula Goodenough How to describe oneself? People are a mystery and there is so much more to us than just our particular experiences or occupations. I could write down a list of attributes and they still might not paint a complete picture pf Deborah Louise and in any case it would not be the full truth of me. I would say that my purpose here on Wordpress is to express some of my random experiences, thoughts and feelings, to share about my particular journey and explore some subjects dear to my heart, such as emotional recovery, healing and astrology while posting up some of the prose/poems which are an outgrowth of my labours with life, love and relationships. If anything I write touches you I would be so pleased to hear for the purpose of reaching out and expressung ourselves is hopefully to connect with each other and find where our souls meet.

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