Feelings are energy. Trauma disrupts the natural flow of energy and creates blockages, frozen energy, stuck energy. That energy does not go away unless it is felt. When we are able to feel our emotions and sensations, energy can move again. And when energy finally moves, new life and new energy are created. The past is released, and a future becomes possible.

As Prentis Hemphill writes about trauma: “We will continue reproducing it until we understand this. Nothing ever really goes away.”

Until we are able to feel all of our feelings, we circle round and round with the same energy. It doesn’t disappear; it shows itself again and again. The invitation is to feel it. And yet the mind, speaking from the voice of trauma, tells us that these feelings are bad or wrong, that they will destroy us, abandon us, take us into a void. And the opposite is true. But we can only know that by finding out for ourselves, by taking that risk, by turning toward what feels all-encompassing and frightening.

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