Trauma and Radical Responsibility
Where is that line between trauma and radical self responsibility? And when is it okay to tell someone. Hey, you're engaged in a trauma narrative that you're just continuing. And when is it okay to just completely support someone? I tend personally, on an interpersonal level to just listen to people and not try to steer them in any particular direction. But from my own perspective, I feel like it's my responsibility to take care of it as much as I can on my own. It's
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:04
And so I have always maintained this space of I'm not going to keep recapping to people how my father died and don't use that phrase around me or don't say that around me because this is my grief for my father and I don't need people tiptoeing around me. What I need to do is and that's not from a space of I don't believe people would be compassionate and understanding. I just want people to be their full authentic self while I am my full authentic self
Hey, JL. So great to meet you. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and for relaying your journey, going through your trauma and your survival and that beautiful concept of you've got to work through it. It there's no way around it. Somebody else isn't going to work through it for you, no matter how much they might want to try, right? You're an inspiration because so many people in our society are trying not to take responsibility for themselves
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdrive · 5:00
And whatever lives in you, you're kind of the only person who can do anything about it. So I'm very open to hearing anybody's hardship and what they have gone through. But the bottom line is this do you want to suffer or do you want to find a way to work through what's making you suffer? To your point, many people have now built after maybe so many years or so many experiences, they've built an identity around their trauma. An identity is built