What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
Interpretation
Facing trauma requires mourning our losses to acknowledge our survival and resilience.
This quote highlights the importance of mourning in the healing process after experiencing trauma. It suggests that by acknowledging and deeply grieving what we have lost, we can come to realize our inner strength and indestructibility, ultimately leading to personal growth and resilience in the face of challenges.
In practice
In a support group discussing trauma and healing, this quote can encourage individuals to share their experiences of loss and resilience.
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.'
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.
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