Trauma Survivors and the Broken Vessel.
Trauma Survivors and the Broken Vessel.
Trauma survivors can many times be beautiful, they come from surviving the harshest and most overwhelming experiences that completely shattered and torn apart their confidence, and now they wake up carrying emotional wounds and scars laden with stories that would terrify the bravest of soldiers.
Trauma survivors are like those old broken vessels that you can sometimes find in Grandma's house, they are broken on some side, with some paint stains and glue traces on the sides, but Grandma doesn't throw them out because they bring her bad memories, contrary, she keeps them at home because that vessel reminds to her of her moments of greatest strength.
Trauma survivors are like those vessels, which many times broke in silence and managed by themselves to pick up their pieces and put them back in their place.
In those scars, there are stories, tears, pain, terror, silences, but also their strength and beauty.
When you meet a Trauma Survivor on your way, empathically acknowledge their pain and their greatness, because there is no greater force in the universe than the strength of a person who was able one day to get up and say (even if it said it with fear) ENOUGH!!.
*Inspired by Conversations w/ Lorie Dechar & Benjamin Fox about their book "The Alchemy of Inner Work: A Guide for Turning Illness and Suffering Into True Health and Well-Being".
Your confidence and your strength are beautiful.
Trauma survivors can many times be beautiful, they come from surviving the harshest and most overwhelming experiences that completely shattered and torn apart their confidence, and now they wake up carrying emotional wounds and scars laden with stories that would terrify the bravest of soldiers.
Trauma survivors are like those old broken vessels that you can sometimes find in Grandma's house, they are broken on some side, with some paint stains and glue traces on the sides, but Grandma doesn't throw them out because they bring her bad memories, contrary, she keeps them at home because that vessel reminds to her of her moments of greatest strength.
Trauma survivors are like those vessels, which many times broke in silence and managed by themselves to pick up their pieces and put them back in their place.
In those scars, there are stories, tears, pain, terror, silences, but also their strength and beauty.
When you meet a Trauma Survivor on your way, empathically acknowledge their pain and their greatness, because there is no greater force in the universe than the strength of a person who was able one day to get up and say (even if it said it with fear) ENOUGH!!.
*Inspired by Conversations w/ Lorie Dechar & Benjamin Fox about their book "The Alchemy of Inner Work: A Guide for Turning Illness and Suffering Into True Health and Well-Being".
Your confidence and your strength are beautiful.
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