All of us come into the world whole and with the innate potential  to love, learn, and thrive. Health and wellbeing are our birthright.  However, the impact of being born into families and cultures with  unresolved trauma interrupts the natural impulse towards wholeness. 

You might have been taught early in life to suppress your true  self and conform to the expectations of the external world. In many  subtle and not so subtle ways, you might have been given the message  that parts of you are not okay and in attempts to receive the love you  needed to survive, shut these parts down. It’s through this process that  we lose touch with who we truly are and what it is we want in life.

So much of what we bump  up against in mainstream culture is detrimental to health and wellbeing. We face a barrage of messages telling us how we should think,  feel, look, and behave while preying on our insecurities and  vulnerabilities. And then there is the passing down of dysfunctional  patterns and wounds in our family systems.

For many of us, our experiences in childhood leave the imprint of  trauma so that instead of walking through life with an innate sense of  worth and purpose, we can feel numb, disconnected, and directionless. 

Resolving this is a process of learning to reconnect with self and meet our physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual needs. By responding  to these needs, we cultivate habits of self-care that bring soothing and safety to the body and psyche.