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What is this trauma that changed your life?
I have been in some deep *** in my life.
Others might perhaps think..
the way I chose to deal with it is cowardly.
I just try to avoid to thinking of these things
in my past and not let them confront me.
It just happened
that we started to recall the past.
What people talked about in this session
was way too heavy.
I wondered why you would reveal such things
to someone you hardly know.
What happened in my past
follows me up till today.
He asked me as well
but I told him I wouldn't talk about it.
Because it has to do with trust, you know?
It was quite heavy.
Before I came to the session
I attended a funeral --
I actually wanted to distract myself from that.
But then he wanted us to speak about
what trauma means to us
and everybody started to talk about
events in their past...
I just couldn't stand it
I had to leave the room.
I really felt unwell in that moment.
It got out of control.
That was my problem too --
the pressure.
Everybody had spoken about something
and suddenly I felt all eyes on me
waiting for me to tell my story.
But actually I wouldn't have said anything,
because I felt uncomfortably talking about that subject.
But I felt like there was a gun to my head...
It would be very difficult to for me
to always be reminded of that thing
he wanted to know from us last sunday.
I think we can forward
by taking a step back from talking
and shift toward something we can do better.
More physicality,
more movement,
more images.
That's a different kind of communication.
What he expects us to do,
in order to go on
is to create
our inner hereo as we imagine him or her to be
Imagine, you are extremely tired,
it's cold outside
but your bed is warm and cosy
and you don't have any desire
to get up in the morning.
But then there is this force,
this strength that tells me
'You have to get up. You have to go to school!'
And so I do it.
This has nothing to do with the trauma,
but only with the superhero in you -- this strength of yours.
It's you lecturing yourself:
„Get up! Go to school! Because school is important for your future."
I find that interesting.