Shana’s Reviews > Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing > Status Update

The moon reminds us that no matter what phase we are in, we are whole.

When I see what is inside me that is hard to look at and love, I find it easier to love your painful truths. And when you love the painful truths in me without looking away, I get the courage to do the same. It is then that I can love my neighbor as myself and love myself as my neighbor. It is not in the way that I once thought.

“Trauma is not just the event. It’s the post-traumatic symptoms. It’s the way in which it lives on in the wounds that remain. It captures the overwhelm. It captures the powerlessness.”

“The things that wound us fall into two categories: the things that happened to us and the things that didn’t happen, but should have. We are wounded by the bad things that happened to us, but also, in the words of Gabor Maté: by the good things that didn’t happen to us.”