Jeff Brown

notice our breath, our bodies, our feelings. To step back from the fires of overwhelm and remember ourselves. It may feel counter-intuitive in a culture that is speed-addicted, but the slower we move, the faster we return home.

After all, consumerism preys on the uncentered.

Their intentions are often very positive and sincere, but what gets lost is the healing nature of simply being heard. Not improved upon—HEARD. This is the best way to improve each other’s realities. Listening in.

complex nature of ancestral trauma

But it seldom happens this way, both because of the complex nature of ancestral trauma, and because it takes so much energy and imagination to craft a healthier way of being.

Most people who have been trapped beneath the rubble of family madness, don’t have the energy, or the faith to get out from under it. It has become who they are. But you have to keep going. Traversing your path. You have to give yourself permission to shed the paradigm, even if it’s lonely, even if you feel the temptation to go back and wait on the others.

What if this is not a nervous breakdown—but a nervous break-through—a profound emotional cleansing, a dissolution of the false structures that have ruled your life, a breaking through to a more authentic state of being?

The story changes when we own our pain. The story changes when we work it through to the lessons at its core. The story changes when we are truly seen in our suffering. The story changes when we heal our heart. We are made of story—there’s no shame in that. Either we work through our story, or our story will work through us

Depression is frozen feeling. It’s not a disease of the ‘mind.’ It’s a disease of the heart. It is sourced in unexpressed, unreleased, and unhealed pain that is held deep within the physical and emotional body.

Unfortunately, we still live in a world that is afraid of the source material. So we shun it, bury it, ‘manage’ it with dissociative spiritualities, medications and feelings-avoidant psychoanalysis.