Committing to a healing journey, or to an alternative spiritual path can make you, at least at first, feel “better than". We might think, deep down, “I'm better than all these other people because I've chosen this spiritual path, instead of following a religion that has tons of rules and dogma, or instead of floundering around haphazard in the world of people who don't have a spiritual practice.” Often people will have a rejection reaction towards a particular other spiritual

People come to me in pain, struggle, stuckness, beginning to wonder if there’s some emotional component underneath the struggle, but still unable to see what it is. Why can’t you see it? It is your life, after all, and you were there… People have a hard time seeing life events clearly when there is unprocessed trauma. I paraphrase Gabor Mate here when I say that there is only one story, really, underneath all trauma: you had a need that wasn’t met. We can flesh this out somew

It is so hard to look around and not be dismayed at the state we are in as humans and the state of our home, this one planet. Because it is hard, we tend not to allow ourselves to drop into the heartbreak. We react by refusing to slow down and be where we are, feeling the feelings that we are feeling. We go quickly though our days and try to blind ourselves with distractions: coffee, food, drugs, internet, dieting, exercise, etc. All of these distractions take energy from the