It might be hard to imagine that in the darkness of your life the seeds of possibility exist.
In my own life the health challenges I have faced, the losses I have experienced – these are the seeds of what I do now through Life Fundamentals. And the pain of those experiences is what motivates me. If I can help someone else with their hurts journey, then I believe I’ve done a good thing. It is not about taking away the hurt, rather it is about offering wisdom and tools to empower individuals to transform their hurts into an energy of creation and expansion from an energy of constriction and depletion.
Whether you are looking to make a career change or make some changes in your relationships – with yourself or others – perhaps the place to begin is to acknowledge your hurts, to acknowledge your losses, and to invite the possibility that those deepest wounds could call forth your greatest gifts.
For inspiration, I encourage you as you read or hear about happenings/events in your local community or around the world, see if you can notice examples of individuals stepping into what I call creative hurts – where pain and possibility or trauma and growth, co-exist. Notice how a challenging or traumatic life event has sparked what comes next in their lives.
Here’s a few examples to get you started…
- ‘I carried his name on my body for 9 years’: the tatooed trafficking survivors reclaiming their past.
- A chef regains his focus.
As you uncover other interesting examples, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
Text and Images Copyright © Dr. Catherine Hajnal 2015
