Connection is why we are here: it is what gives purpose

and meaning to our lives.

Brene Brown

Dear Michael,

When I look back at my seven-plus decades I see a consistent thread, a longing for connection. At the same time, I carry the baggage of trauma, the fear of connecting, of being seen, abandoned, or shamed… I know in my mind that the overwhelming events of my earlier life are not happening now. But the paralyzing experiences I encountered from an early age don’t live in my mind! They live in my body and emotions. Our intelligent nervous system protects us from becoming immobilized in the face of threat, danger, and overwhelm. The more we try to “get rid” of the nagging fears, unwelcome emotions, and imagined threats, the more the nervous system tries to protect us. That’s its job!

We are all swimming in a sea of individual, familial, collective, and intergenerational trauma which leaves us feeling separate, protected, and untrusting with a sense of lack or scarcity. Unresolved experiences from our past live in our bodies as tension, stress, or numbness. To integrate and digest these fragmented and frozen parts of our essence we must feel the unwanted sensations and emotions. Left unattended they rob us of our vitality, intimacy, and the sense of connection that is our birthright.

Healing involves discomfort, but so does refusing to heal. Over time 

refusing to heal is always more painful.

Resma Menakem

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Book of the Month

Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing: Ancestral Wisdom from the Snail Clan of Tanzania

by Efu Nyaki and Peter A. Levine

In this brilliant new release by Efu Nyaki she shares how she came to develop her healing system by integrating ancestral tribal wisdom with a fusion of two Western healing systems: Somatic Experiencing and Systemic Family Constellations Therapy. She communicates in simple lay terms how the trauma healing process is a complex ritual of energy movement on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. 

Born and raised on Mount Kilimanjaro’s slopes in Tanzania, East Africa, Efu explains how she came to develop her profoundly successful system for helping people heal trauma by integrating ancestral tribal wisdom with a fusion of two Western healing systems: Somatic Experiencing and Systemic Family Constellations Therapy. This brilliant book shows us how we can bring forth healing from wounding from our past. Release date is November 7th and you can preorder.

Video of the Month

Peter Levine's Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body

Peter Levine is known for developing Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented approach to treating trauma1. The technique focuses on processing traumatic memory, calming the nervous system, and releasing traumatic shock from the body. Levine’s techniques often involve a combination of body-centered therapies such as somatic experiencing, as well as mindfulness and meditation practices. Levine was among the first to fully realize that humans have an innate psychophysiological capacity for overcoming trauma. Somatic Experiencing is a simple yet profoundly effective mind-body healing technique.

About Michael Stone

Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, and trauma integration facilitator who co-creates individual and group environments and experiences that support people in transcending the myth of separation, and experiencing deep and profound interconnection with others and all of life. He has been teaching and leading experiential events, classes, teleseminars and workshops on Organizational Development, Embodied Shamanism, Moving Meditation, Mysticism, Relational Intimacy, Personal Growth, Trauma Integration and Spiritual Fulfillment for over 40 years. www.WellofLight.com

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Poetry Corner

May You be Blessed

May you be blessed with good friends.

May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.

May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where

there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.

May this change you.

May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.

May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.

May you treasure your friends.

May you be good to them and may you be there for them;

may they bring you all the blessing, challenges, truth,

and light that you need for your journey.

May you never be isolated.

May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam ċara.

From Anam Cara: A Book Of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue

Anam Cara is a Celtic term for Soul Friend

I'm ready to connect! How about you! Buddha