Transforming Trauma

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November 30, 2021

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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

- Viktor Frankl -

Transforming Trauma

"This is the timeless wisdom of the shamans, our planet's oldest indigenous healers, and also of our great religious and spiritual traditions: suffering is the soil in which wisdom and compassion grow; it is the school from which we graduate, committed to healing others' hurt. Recent scientific studies on post-traumatic growth yield similar conclusions.This is what I know after fifty years of clinical work with traumatized people and from wrestling with and learning from the ordinary challenges and heartbreaking losses of my own long life." Dr. James Gordon shares more in this excerpt from his book, 'Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing.' { read more }