How Connection Heals Trauma (and why it terrifies us too)
The Double Edge
Each time I seek to connect
there is a double edge.
Will it be different this time?
Will I be known?
Will I be seen?
Will I be heard?
And can I survive if not?
Can I survive the opposite?
Can I survive reaching for you
and not finding you?
Can my heart hold all of this,
the terror and the hope?
It will all tumble one day.
This I know.
And yet I reach,
and sometimes,
maybe.
Yes.
There you are.
I have been
waiting
to find you
for so long.
-- Albert Wong
written May 16, 2020
"How Connection Heals Trauma (and why it terrifies us too)"
The Embodied Connection Conference (2020)
A Free eBook
Try as we might, we cannot think our way out of trauma.
When we get emotionally hijacked, reason gets thrown by the wayside.
Trauma speaks its own language that reason does not know.
We cannot "logic" our way out of a flashback. We are in it.
This is a short report (8 pages) that describes why strictly cognitive approaches fail – and what we must do to change.
