27 "Is My Bruised Psyche Blocking My Awakening?" PTSD Part 2

This is part 2 of 5 on Awakening and PTSD.

You are a relaxed beautiful radiant loving being flowing effortlessly with love...but often we don't feel that way. Why? We absorbed a "bruise" of inadequacy, fear, discontent, or some other equally untrue feeling. This became our underlying felt sense of ourselves and because it did not feel right we started trying to incessantly think our way out of our predicament in order to solve our suffering. But this bruise is neurobiological and can't be solved with thought. Different tools are needed.

These podcasts are here to support your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. They are most powerful when listened to in sequence from podcast one forward. Each is built on the last. If anything does not resonate, disregard it and follow your heart.

Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy. If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.

Reviews

Thank you so much! Such an important message. Awareness and reinforcement is very helpful. Peace and love, Jennifer Lea

Thank you so much. I have listened to this one three times! I am truly grateful 🙂🙏

The bruise analogy works for me! Excited to learn more from Peter and inner family systems...I have done some systemic constellations and they are fascinating. I had pleasure of listening to Elmar Dornberger speak on trauma and there were so many connections within your talks, felt like God was like listen up buttercup. There are times I wish there was someone I could talk with everyday as stuff comes up and traditional therapy isn't a fit.

Schwartz has a great book only available on audible that walks you thru his model as an experience. Thank you :)

Thank you William & Hello on this lovely October day. I listened to this podcast today, after listening to the preceding one last night. Now to take it slowly and stay with this one for a while. Listen to again.
This is extremely helpfull to me. There is so much here…. to let the thoughts soak up the goodness of my awareness… thoughts & feelings of despair, Thich Nhat Hanh when asked what is the most important thing in life- he said not to be overwhelmed by despair- and here I can also connect that to how you describe that a person can be awake, aware and very anxious. Pendulate, maybe, just take in a drop… I’m remembering the wind and light rain, on one of my cheeks as I recently walked from the train on a stormy evening.
Peter Levine and Richard Schwartz, I’ve come across both. I’ve spent a long time on a lot of stuff- here you are helping me connect into this in a real and paced way.
So for anyone else who sees this, if they’re like me with the fast mind, looking and looking for solutions I suggest maybe go to your website first and look at the resources section you recommend. They may find enough material that connects with these talks and not need buy loads of books and watch hours of youtube, which can become like an ocd of our mind trying to help solve a lot of stuff. I’ve done that and more.
Your pacing here is lovely. I feel gratitude to have found your talks. Also, thank you for your 2nd follow up message to me on the previous talk- I left a short reply there.
Blessings to all here 🌱