The Trauma Veil
How to give yourself grace for “poor” choices
Hindsight is 20/20. We hear that all the time. However, that may not prevent you from making similar choices that created the circumstances the hindsight potentially revealed.
“I’ll never do that again” is the vow. And months later, you find yourself in the same type of situation. The characters changed, the plot remained the same. How does that happen? You may even ask yourself, “how did I end up here again?”
Decisions are made through the veil of trauma until that trauma is healed.
Consciously, you know what you want and maybe even what you don’t want. However, there’s something blocking and keeping what you want just out of reach.
Let’s take building wealth as an example. You want to be financially free. You take the steps needed to get yourself to that place. And inevitably, something major happens that causes a set back. And you find you have to shell out all that money you have been saving. And the cycle repeats. What is that?
Another common experience shows up in relationships. You know what you want in a partner on a conscious level. Yet, you keep falling for or ending up with the kind of person you don’t want. How does that keep happening?
