This is so wonderful, Veronika! In my work with the ancestors not only do I heal wounds/trauma, but I also like to attune to the gifts or positive resources. I loved so much to learn that you are living these positive resources through your translation work. That warms my heart! Thank you so much for everything you wrote here and for the downloadable information. I resonated so much with all of it. I, too, had a stable loving childhood, and yet live with hypersensitivity (which has been both a blessing and a curse). You are so right that allowing ourselves to be ourselves is what can open the path to healing. So looking forward to part 5! 🤗
Thank you Jenna! It warms my heart to read your response and feel this deep connection ~ our work is so different yet the same at a profound level. And the download is of course there thanks to you(!) I thought this is valuable because on all websites with info about C-PTSD there is at first a list of potential causes, which is meaningless for invisible trauma. It can make readers (like myself) switch off and think 'oh, nothing to do with me...' ... but the symptoms are always the telltale signs. I used to joke that I had a relationship history as if I came from a broken home... which I didn't understand until I saw the symptom list of C-PTSD, and the penny finally dropped!
I really look forward to each new installment of Synchronosophy. Was excited seeing this in the inbox. The subject matter for this one was much more personally entwined, and I found it very emotive and effective.
There are so many gems in this piece, and a huge one ☝️ in your comment above: “The emotional realm is timeless.”
I am convinced that merely being born human means being traumatized. Our very first entry into physical incarnation is a traumatic separation from the maternal womb, and in our current disconnected society, it so often just goes downhill from there.
That any single one of us is functioning at all is a miracle. Indeed we ARE miracles.
I couldn't agree more. It is such a relief and joy to read your response, because so often we are not allowed to express our emotional trauma, which is in itself traumatic every time.
'The wound of trauma is stuck in the body', they say. In the Inner Ocean of our emotions it is frozen in time. I'll go into a lot more depth about emotions in future chapters.
You're spot on (IMHO) when you say, "merely being born human means being traumatized." This is our individual unique expression of our collective human story. Therefore our personal healing work is also collective healing work.
YES! WE ARE MIRACLES. And we can experience so many of them. We can even make them happen, but not in the way some wishful Believers like to think. One of the miraculous things we can do with trauma is to transform it into "a gift from the gods," as Peter Levine so brilliantly stated:
I have done that, and I can see that you have too.
All best wishes on this miraculous journey of turning Trauma into Dancing Stars.
Thank you so much for this. I love the way you wrap your own ancestral story into the context of your own life. Healing “what our bones know.” is definitely an invisible journey. Without it, we never step into our own authenticity to be who were here to be. I am loving your series. With your writing, I slowly unwrap myself. Synchronosophy is a door to everything. 🙏❤️
I love how you put that. Healing trauma sure is a slow and careful unwrapping until you get to the 'gift from the gods'. And there are always more unexpected layers, leading to new revelations, deeper insights and more inner freedom. Thank you Jamie 💕🙏
Thanks for sharing your own story and healing! This aversion to emotional sensitivity is also cultural. I am a native Chinese. Chinese classic poetry literature is rich with poems written by poets with highly sensitive emotional faculty. As a young girl, I was able to preserve my own emotional sensitivity by immersing myself in the classic poetry. However, modern Chinese culture also suffers from the lack of understanding of emotional sensitivity.
Thank you so much for your lovely response! cultural aversion to emotional sensitivity, yes! I am native German. Your words remind me of course of German classic poetry, equally rich with emotions. I am always particularly interested in the lives of famous people. What went on, for example, in the life and childhood of the famous German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Because people wrote 100s of letters in those days, we can get glimpses into their relationships. So we know that Goethe's mother was a very emotional, sensitive lady and supportive of her children. Here is an excerpt from a letter to her son: "I could not say goodbye, my heart was too full… never, never, shall I lose your image from my soul… oh don’t forget us, dearest… I must stop, and must cry… my house is so lonely, as if deserted…"
Thanks for sharing that Veronika, and remembering the ancient thread of our culture where emotional sensitivity had been a thread, a river... It just has gone underground in periods like Nazi, or in my case, Cultural Revolution. Now it's roaring back above the ground, into our consciousness again! It is also a reminder of the cyclic nature of cosmic change ...
emotional sensitivity = a river ~ Yes! In Germany/Europe it wasn't just the Tyrannical Period of Nazis and other fascists in the early 20th century.
The suppression of emotions started long before, with the elevation of rationalism, objectivism and scientism through Cartesian philosophy in the so-called Enlightenment Era (17th-18th century) ~ and before that we had the 'religious cleansing' (from paganism and animism) of Europe through Catholicism, spread towards the end of the Roman Empire (5th century) and culminating in the Inquisition and Witch-hunts (12th-13th century).
The roots run deep. But as you say, it's roaring back up. And those of us attuned to these streams of human Consciousness discover that the individual rivers of our emotional sensitivity all feed into a collective ocean... an underground sea of frozen emocean... Let's keep tuning in and unfreeze the emotional icebergs.
Really enjoyed conversing with you! Yes let's unfreeze the emotional icebergs, and also distilling the essence of objective/rational mind, and putting it to the right place: a devoted servant to emotional/spiritual Self. Wish you best in your rivering!
The interweaving of an intense personal journey with the depth and spread of writers on psychology and tangential subjects makes for a fascinating and instructive read. Excellent 🙏 💜
Oh yes, the wounded inner child. It wasn’t until l was in my mid 40’s that a GP said to me that “putting other people’s needs above your own (to the extent that l was doing, primarily re work, choosing to do average 60 hour weeks), was a trauma response. So l saw a great psychologist for a couple of years who helped me work on the three selves; the wounded inner child, raging adolescent and to help my adult self parent the other two. My inner work continues, now with my guides, including ancestors, from across the veil. Thank you for this work Veronika. Only this morning my sister was messaging me about inter generational and inherited trauma. It is part of our collective humanity and life work, trauma.
that's exactly how I see it too. Processing our 'personal trauma' is always a contribution to healing collective trauma, and therefore such valuable life's work. Thank you so much for sharing this, Simone. And thank you to your sister as well! 💕🙏
I just have to thank you for sharing so intimately and honestly of your childhood experience. Much to take in here. and here is my inner perfectionist coming through, re Nora's mother, you said 'died in childbed', where possibly you meant to say 'died in childbirth?'.
thank you! I very much appreciate your inner perfectionist (I've got one of them as well) and I truly welcome corrections... any time!!! So really, thank you for questioning this 💕🙏
however, in this case, 'childbed' is the correct word. Although some English dictionaries refer to 'childbed' as an 'archaic term for 'childbirth' that's incorrect.
Childbirth is the time during labour until the baby is born.
Childbed is the period of recovery after the birth, in medical language referred to as 'post partum' or 'puerperal' (which can cover both periods). Equivalent terms in German are 'Kindbett' and 'Wochenbett' (maybe there is a similar one in Dutch too?)
In the past, many women suffered from 'puerperal fever', (childbed fever), an infection in the womb, which in serious cases could cause sepsis and death. I think that was the tragic fate of Nora's mother.
I am glad that you welcome them! And pleased to learn this new word in that case :-) I am so enjoying the precision and wisdom of your deep dive into language, i can see why you did the glossary first before the book. It has felt very meaningful to read the start of your story today - very rich.
Thank you! Your deep engagement with my work is very meaningful to me! 💗🙏
What you are seeing are the benefits of letting a writing project mature over a long time. (which was not the original intention of course, I was once an impatient writer too... but I had to ease into it and let the work take the lead)
I realised that the book has so many concepts, which are ~ although not totally unfamiliar ~ not commonly accepted in our 'normal way of thinking' promoted by the anthropocentric paradigm. This demands precision in terms and language. At some point I knew if I don't have a glossary, I have to keep interrupting the flow of the book to backtrack and explain... (which gets messy)
So yes, that may also be the reason why I'm genuinely open to corrections and welcoming to other points of view. The familiar fear of criticism has dropped by the wayside.
In a way, I feel Synchronosophy wants to become more of a collective/ symbiopoietic project. Who am I to stand in its way?
Fascinating about your Aunt!! It’s sad to think so many were suffering alone with zero outlet for expressing and no spaces being created in which to be held and embraced.
Thank you for sharing your personal story and speaking to the real epidemic humanity is experiencing. And for also offering up solutions. This is the most important work to be done, in my mind- to for once and for all break the cycles of trauma and heal them at the root. ❤️
Thank you Jacqueline 💖🙏 Your words are nourishment for my writer's soul.
I had an overwhelming sense, beginning of this year, that now is the time! I have to put this stuff out in a new way/format. This substack is the emerging result, in this vulnerable format, painful to write sometimes, something I've shied away from for various good reasons.
"This is the most important work to be done" ~ that's what I've been saying for 25+ years. Because if we can't heal who we are, anything we do is inevitably an expression of an unhealed being, which inevitably adds another spin to the cycle of trauma.
We are doing it, soul sister❣️ We are being, living, and becoming it.
"Because if we can't heal who we are, anything we do is inevitably an expression of an unhealed being, which inevitably adds another spin to the cycle of trauma."
YES!
And what a wonderful step up in consciousness that we now are understanding this.
"We are doing it, soul sister❣️ We are being, living, and becoming it."
We ARE!!! It's a very exciting movement to be a part of...sending you my love and appreciation, my sister! XO
This is so wonderful, Veronika! In my work with the ancestors not only do I heal wounds/trauma, but I also like to attune to the gifts or positive resources. I loved so much to learn that you are living these positive resources through your translation work. That warms my heart! Thank you so much for everything you wrote here and for the downloadable information. I resonated so much with all of it. I, too, had a stable loving childhood, and yet live with hypersensitivity (which has been both a blessing and a curse). You are so right that allowing ourselves to be ourselves is what can open the path to healing. So looking forward to part 5! 🤗
Thank you Jenna! It warms my heart to read your response and feel this deep connection ~ our work is so different yet the same at a profound level. And the download is of course there thanks to you(!) I thought this is valuable because on all websites with info about C-PTSD there is at first a list of potential causes, which is meaningless for invisible trauma. It can make readers (like myself) switch off and think 'oh, nothing to do with me...' ... but the symptoms are always the telltale signs. I used to joke that I had a relationship history as if I came from a broken home... which I didn't understand until I saw the symptom list of C-PTSD, and the penny finally dropped!
I really look forward to each new installment of Synchronosophy. Was excited seeing this in the inbox. The subject matter for this one was much more personally entwined, and I found it very emotive and effective.
There are so many gems in this piece, and a huge one ☝️ in your comment above: “The emotional realm is timeless.”
I am convinced that merely being born human means being traumatized. Our very first entry into physical incarnation is a traumatic separation from the maternal womb, and in our current disconnected society, it so often just goes downhill from there.
That any single one of us is functioning at all is a miracle. Indeed we ARE miracles.
I couldn't agree more. It is such a relief and joy to read your response, because so often we are not allowed to express our emotional trauma, which is in itself traumatic every time.
'The wound of trauma is stuck in the body', they say. In the Inner Ocean of our emotions it is frozen in time. I'll go into a lot more depth about emotions in future chapters.
You're spot on (IMHO) when you say, "merely being born human means being traumatized." This is our individual unique expression of our collective human story. Therefore our personal healing work is also collective healing work.
YES! WE ARE MIRACLES. And we can experience so many of them. We can even make them happen, but not in the way some wishful Believers like to think. One of the miraculous things we can do with trauma is to transform it into "a gift from the gods," as Peter Levine so brilliantly stated:
I have done that, and I can see that you have too.
All best wishes on this miraculous journey of turning Trauma into Dancing Stars.
Thank you so much for this. I love the way you wrap your own ancestral story into the context of your own life. Healing “what our bones know.” is definitely an invisible journey. Without it, we never step into our own authenticity to be who were here to be. I am loving your series. With your writing, I slowly unwrap myself. Synchronosophy is a door to everything. 🙏❤️
I love how you put that. Healing trauma sure is a slow and careful unwrapping until you get to the 'gift from the gods'. And there are always more unexpected layers, leading to new revelations, deeper insights and more inner freedom. Thank you Jamie 💕🙏
Thanks for sharing your own story and healing! This aversion to emotional sensitivity is also cultural. I am a native Chinese. Chinese classic poetry literature is rich with poems written by poets with highly sensitive emotional faculty. As a young girl, I was able to preserve my own emotional sensitivity by immersing myself in the classic poetry. However, modern Chinese culture also suffers from the lack of understanding of emotional sensitivity.
Thank you so much for your lovely response! cultural aversion to emotional sensitivity, yes! I am native German. Your words remind me of course of German classic poetry, equally rich with emotions. I am always particularly interested in the lives of famous people. What went on, for example, in the life and childhood of the famous German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Because people wrote 100s of letters in those days, we can get glimpses into their relationships. So we know that Goethe's mother was a very emotional, sensitive lady and supportive of her children. Here is an excerpt from a letter to her son: "I could not say goodbye, my heart was too full… never, never, shall I lose your image from my soul… oh don’t forget us, dearest… I must stop, and must cry… my house is so lonely, as if deserted…"
Thanks for sharing that Veronika, and remembering the ancient thread of our culture where emotional sensitivity had been a thread, a river... It just has gone underground in periods like Nazi, or in my case, Cultural Revolution. Now it's roaring back above the ground, into our consciousness again! It is also a reminder of the cyclic nature of cosmic change ...
emotional sensitivity = a river ~ Yes! In Germany/Europe it wasn't just the Tyrannical Period of Nazis and other fascists in the early 20th century.
The suppression of emotions started long before, with the elevation of rationalism, objectivism and scientism through Cartesian philosophy in the so-called Enlightenment Era (17th-18th century) ~ and before that we had the 'religious cleansing' (from paganism and animism) of Europe through Catholicism, spread towards the end of the Roman Empire (5th century) and culminating in the Inquisition and Witch-hunts (12th-13th century).
The roots run deep. But as you say, it's roaring back up. And those of us attuned to these streams of human Consciousness discover that the individual rivers of our emotional sensitivity all feed into a collective ocean... an underground sea of frozen emocean... Let's keep tuning in and unfreeze the emotional icebergs.
Really enjoyed conversing with you! Yes let's unfreeze the emotional icebergs, and also distilling the essence of objective/rational mind, and putting it to the right place: a devoted servant to emotional/spiritual Self. Wish you best in your rivering!
The interweaving of an intense personal journey with the depth and spread of writers on psychology and tangential subjects makes for a fascinating and instructive read. Excellent 🙏 💜
Thank you so much 💖🙏
I like to think we're getting past some of this stuff that earlier generations rejected, like anything in the emotional realm.
The emotional realm is timeless. There is no getting past it until its healed.
Oh yes, the wounded inner child. It wasn’t until l was in my mid 40’s that a GP said to me that “putting other people’s needs above your own (to the extent that l was doing, primarily re work, choosing to do average 60 hour weeks), was a trauma response. So l saw a great psychologist for a couple of years who helped me work on the three selves; the wounded inner child, raging adolescent and to help my adult self parent the other two. My inner work continues, now with my guides, including ancestors, from across the veil. Thank you for this work Veronika. Only this morning my sister was messaging me about inter generational and inherited trauma. It is part of our collective humanity and life work, trauma.
that's exactly how I see it too. Processing our 'personal trauma' is always a contribution to healing collective trauma, and therefore such valuable life's work. Thank you so much for sharing this, Simone. And thank you to your sister as well! 💕🙏
Thank you Veronika, for all of this work. What a treat, wisdom at our fingertips.🙏
I just have to thank you for sharing so intimately and honestly of your childhood experience. Much to take in here. and here is my inner perfectionist coming through, re Nora's mother, you said 'died in childbed', where possibly you meant to say 'died in childbirth?'.
thank you! I very much appreciate your inner perfectionist (I've got one of them as well) and I truly welcome corrections... any time!!! So really, thank you for questioning this 💕🙏
however, in this case, 'childbed' is the correct word. Although some English dictionaries refer to 'childbed' as an 'archaic term for 'childbirth' that's incorrect.
Childbirth is the time during labour until the baby is born.
Childbed is the period of recovery after the birth, in medical language referred to as 'post partum' or 'puerperal' (which can cover both periods). Equivalent terms in German are 'Kindbett' and 'Wochenbett' (maybe there is a similar one in Dutch too?)
In the past, many women suffered from 'puerperal fever', (childbed fever), an infection in the womb, which in serious cases could cause sepsis and death. I think that was the tragic fate of Nora's mother.
I am glad that you welcome them! And pleased to learn this new word in that case :-) I am so enjoying the precision and wisdom of your deep dive into language, i can see why you did the glossary first before the book. It has felt very meaningful to read the start of your story today - very rich.
Thank you! Your deep engagement with my work is very meaningful to me! 💗🙏
What you are seeing are the benefits of letting a writing project mature over a long time. (which was not the original intention of course, I was once an impatient writer too... but I had to ease into it and let the work take the lead)
I realised that the book has so many concepts, which are ~ although not totally unfamiliar ~ not commonly accepted in our 'normal way of thinking' promoted by the anthropocentric paradigm. This demands precision in terms and language. At some point I knew if I don't have a glossary, I have to keep interrupting the flow of the book to backtrack and explain... (which gets messy)
So yes, that may also be the reason why I'm genuinely open to corrections and welcoming to other points of view. The familiar fear of criticism has dropped by the wayside.
In a way, I feel Synchronosophy wants to become more of a collective/ symbiopoietic project. Who am I to stand in its way?
Wow. This is powerful and oh so timely. 🙏
Fascinating about your Aunt!! It’s sad to think so many were suffering alone with zero outlet for expressing and no spaces being created in which to be held and embraced.
Thank you for sharing your personal story and speaking to the real epidemic humanity is experiencing. And for also offering up solutions. This is the most important work to be done, in my mind- to for once and for all break the cycles of trauma and heal them at the root. ❤️
Thank you Jacqueline 💖🙏 Your words are nourishment for my writer's soul.
I had an overwhelming sense, beginning of this year, that now is the time! I have to put this stuff out in a new way/format. This substack is the emerging result, in this vulnerable format, painful to write sometimes, something I've shied away from for various good reasons.
"This is the most important work to be done" ~ that's what I've been saying for 25+ years. Because if we can't heal who we are, anything we do is inevitably an expression of an unhealed being, which inevitably adds another spin to the cycle of trauma.
We are doing it, soul sister❣️ We are being, living, and becoming it.
Thank you for your most important work too 💕🙏
"Because if we can't heal who we are, anything we do is inevitably an expression of an unhealed being, which inevitably adds another spin to the cycle of trauma."
YES!
And what a wonderful step up in consciousness that we now are understanding this.
"We are doing it, soul sister❣️ We are being, living, and becoming it."
We ARE!!! It's a very exciting movement to be a part of...sending you my love and appreciation, my sister! XO
much love and appreciation right back to you 𓆩♡𓆪˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚𓆩♡𓆪
You spoke to me 🙏💜🙏