Trauma is hard

It’s rough, it’s aggressive, it wounds, it hurts and it always seems to hang around way longer than we would like it to.

We become a product of our trauma by default, not by choice. However the choice that we have is to reverse the product that we have become that is not helping us. We have the choice to declutter, to clean things up, to ultimately live a freer life not bound by the events of our past.

All good continuums have clear ends and provide us the freedom to firmly plot where we are. Then take a moment and reflect on where we want to be and why. It may be the same place, it’s normally somewhere different.

The hardness of trauma travels with us. Sometimes it drives us but often it continues to hinder us and for some odd reason we continue to allow it. Its characteristics sit on one side of the continuum. 

The other end is beautifully decorated with its polar opposites. Peace, happiness, calm, freedom and maybe the greatest of them all, love. We just struggle to see them.

To see them takes work. The work provides glimpses. The glimpses inspire. They make the work worth it. They drive change. They consistently deliver inspiration.

All we have to do is be open, ready and willing.

Marcus