Trauma & Art

Attending and befriending our fear

I always enjoy reading Tara Brach’s articles or listening to her talks. Her talk at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5w4Mh28wn4, is about attending and befriending our fear, sympathetic nervous system responses, the physiology of fear, aggression, mindfulness, kindness, (self) compassion and more

Common humanity and compassion

Krisitn Neff on suffering, self-judgment, common humanity and connectedness, the science of self / compassion, our biological make up and our being wired for compassion, emotional resonance, mindfulness, self / kindness …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0gtnOXAp… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11U0h0DP….

Sharing

Diane Poole Heller’s short video on relating, connection, intimacy and love, memory, novelty, negativity bias and neural pathways, highly sensitive people and more at her website; https://dianepooleheller.com/valentines-day-video-deepening-intimacy

Songwriter and singer: Mary Chapin Carpenter

The map of my heart looks a lot like yours
From the one way streets to the old detours
To the dark dead ends with their missing signs
The sun and the moon and the roads that wind
Like the stories we tell tracing the routes
Wind in my ears, dirt on my boots

The map of my heart is torn at the corners
From ignoring the warnings, disobeying the orders
I’ve been lost in a crowd, found in solitary
I learned how to travel with just what I could carry
Towards the vast unseen and the great unknown
The map of theheart is all that we own

Leaving safety to chance and reason behind
X marks every spot I thought I’d lost my mind
I didn’t think that I could but I couldn’t stop trying

And I can’t stop trying to hold in my hands
That moment I could feel my heart expand
With more love than I thought could exist in the world
The hollows were gone, the emptiness filled
A life transformed down to the bone
This map of my heart is all that I own………..