Sanctuary Trauma ~ memories and emotional honesty
Sanctuary Trauma ~ memories and emotional honesty
“Our homes, our sanctuaries, were not safe places. Our parents - who were our Higher Powers - were not healthy, so it was impossible for them to parent us in a healthy way. It is actually quite normal for most of us to have very few memories inside of our homes with our family members. We may have memories of being alone in our homes, or memories outside of the home - but since home was where we suffered the most traumatic emotional wounds (the disapproval of our gods), it was where we most needed to use denial in order to cope.” “Until I got emotionally honest with myself in relationship to my feelings about my mother, it was impossible for me to have any kind of an honest relationship with any woman. There are many men who say they love women and trust them more than men - because their mother was the “good” parent - who are actually carrying a great deal of rage at women because of the rage they haven’t owned against their mothers.”
An article by inner child pioneer/Spiritual teacher about sanctuary trauma and the importance of emotionally reclaiming childhood memories.
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This article Sanctuary Trauma ~ memories and emotional honesty was originally published online August 22, 2000 on my Inner Child / Codependency Recovery page on the Suite101.com Directory as part of a series of articles on healing the inner child under the title Inner Child Healing - Part 4 - Emotional Honesty. There is a list of - and links to - articles recently published on that Directory on my Suite101 Articles page.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Sanctuary_Trauma.htm