| Have you been abused? Have you experienced a lot | | | | to do with healing from childhood abuse, and traumas |
| of trauma in your life? Do you suffer from | | | | and the resulting depression? Everything! Just follow |
| depression as the result of these experiences? Do | | | | my thoughts for a moment. In 1514, Balboa was the |
| you wonder if you can really heal? Yes, Yes | | | | first European to cross the isthmus and saw the |
| absolutely. Healing will not be the "quick fix". It is the | | | | Pacific Ocean and the dream was born. He saw the |
| hard work miracle that only you can give yourself. In | | | | vision. I am here to tell you that your life can be |
| a recent article, I wrote about brain fog as a defense | | | | better. I had a vision of possibility for my life. If you |
| or protection from all the trauma. I believe that it also | | | | haven't had one, then I carry that vision for you until |
| keeps us from healing. It keeps us in a state of | | | | you can see it for your self. A lot of people worked |
| disassociation from ourselves and from reality. | | | | on the canal project. Each one had a piece that had |
| The point of this article is to give you hope. It is very | | | | to be completed for the project to work. There will |
| possible to get well. The first thing you need to | | | | be a lot of work in clearing the clutter and chaos |
| know (not believe, but to know) that it is possible. | | | | resulting from an abusive and traumatic upbringing. |
| Then you do the work. You move through some | | | | Each day, people showed up to work on the canal |
| time and space and experiences to experience life | | | | until it was done. You will do the work of excavating |
| from the eyes of wholeness rather than from the | | | | your interior, one day at a time. You will work with |
| lens of distortion. | | | | doctors, counselors, speakers, using various therapies |
| I was listening to NPR last week and thought this | | | | and techniques. Many folks died in building the dream. |
| story was a great metaphor of what I mean. It was | | | | Your entire belief system will be dismantled and |
| an article about the Panama Canal. Did you know that | | | | rebuilt. Many of your distorted beliefs that no longer |
| there were dreamers and seers back in the 16th | | | | serve you will "die" and fall away. It may feel like you |
| Century that "saw" the canal already built? It wasn't | | | | are dying. You're not, you just pruning the dead |
| until 1880 that a French company began building the | | | | wood. |
| project. They stopped the project after 7 years | | | | It took almost 5 centuries to build the canal. The |
| because of diseases and difficult terrain problems. In | | | | good news, it won't take that long to heal. It will not |
| 1904 the USA picked up the project and completed it | | | | be a quick fix. If you pursue yourself; if you leave no |
| in 1914. More than 75,000 men and women worked | | | | stone unturned; you will be blessed with YOU, your |
| on this project with over 5,600 folks dying from | | | | authentic self in full glory. You will live your dream in |
| disease and accidents during the America era. | | | | present time. |
| So, you might be thinking... what does this story have | | | | |