Whole Human Healing

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On the Healing Power of Remorse - Whole Human Healing: Sarah Clark LAc It is my experience that remorse is a straight and narrow pathway to an open heart. Referred to in Buddhism as contrition, it is understood as a gateway to the awakening. Yet it is an emotion most of us ignore or avoid–tending to get distracted by guilt or shame instead. Guilt and shame are more [...

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Because the truth is that it simply does not work to use our critical minds to talk ourselves out of a story we are telling ourselves with our critical minds. Instead we need to go to where the root of that painful story sits–to the fear, the shame, the rage and often also the shock that is held in our tissues, our nervous systems, our bones and muscles, sometimes in our very organs. We need to bring our most compassionate witness to our bodies, to where we hold restriction or pain because our aliveness has gotten blocked. Listening to the body, we can call every part of ourselves back to the truth, which is that there is nothing wrong with us, that our worth as human beings has nothing to do with all the critical judgements that hold us hostage to an impossible standard, that our value is vast beyond measure.

Abandoning Perfection and Reclaiming Ourselves - Whole Human Healing: Sarah Clark LAc In my eight years of working with clients, I have witnessed how profound changes can occur in a single healing session. I have also witnessed how the journey home to ourselves from repeated stress and trauma takes patience, time, and a whole lot of compassion. Opening to healing often takes a willin...