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February 2021 Newsletter<\/h1>\n

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Last chance to create a \u201cFebruary Newsletter\u201d as it is the last day of the month! On my morning walk today I could hear more birds than a week ago, and the sun actually warmed my face with this very specific feeling when winter and spring seem to debate about letting spring in yet or not\u2026<\/p>\n

My favorite place this winter has been in front of the fire, and here I\u2019ve spent many hours and book pages! Yesterday I finished this book; Healing Collective Trauma \u2013 a process for integrating our intergenerational and cultural wounds<\/em> by Thomas H\u00fcbl.<\/p>\n

He describes the links and effects between our personal traumas and the global traumas we currently can see in the word, like wars, nature disasters, racism and climate change. He also shares his thoughts about what we need to do to heal, ourselves and the world. An important book I highly recommend!<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m becoming a little of a \u201cnervous system nerd\u201d! I just find it so amazing how we are physically and neurologically wired for connection and survival. Our autonomic nervous system doesn\u2019t only keep us alive; it takes care of digestion, breathing and supports us in either rising our puls for action, or slowing it down for rest and digest. And meanwhile, I don\u2019t have to do anything. Amazing isn\u2019t it! This 8-minute short video shows in a brilliant way how our nervous system also adapts for survival when we\u2019ve experienced trauma;<\/p>\n

Trauma and the Nervous System<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently completed a training in Developmental Trauma and have gained some more tools to work with \u201cpreverbal trauma\u201d, which means trauma or events that happened already in our mother\u2019s womb, at birth or shortly after. At this time in our life, we don\u2019t have a language, and memories are stored in the body and not in our brain.<\/p>\n

So understandably, working with these traumas needs to be accessed in a way where words have a minor roll, and when a safe space is created, healing happens when there is connection, trust and supportive touch.\u00a0<\/span>
Read more about Transforming Touch\u00ae and Transforming Intentional Touch\u00ae under\u00a0Approaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As days goes by, I welcome with gratitude the longer days and the slightly warmer ray of sunlight. Spring is around the corner, even if winter is still present. For me, seasons are constant reminders of change and possibilities. So as we move forward I’d like to end with yet another beautiful poem by David Whyte;<\/p>\n

BLESSING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT<\/p>\n

The blessing of the morning light to you,<\/em>
may it find you even in your invisible<\/em>
appearances,<\/em><\/p>\n

may you be seen to have risen<\/em>
from some other place you know and have known<\/em>
in the darkness and that that carries all you need.<\/em><\/p>\n

May you see what is hidden in you<\/em>
as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter,<\/em>
may what is hidden in you become your gift to give,<\/em><\/p>\n

may you hold that shadow to the light<\/em>
and the silence of that shelter to the word of the light,<\/em><\/p>\n

may you join every previous disappearance<\/em>
with this new appearance, this new morning,<\/em>
his being seen again, new and newly alive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With gratitude,<\/p>\n

Helena<\/p>\n

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