What is actually happening when we’re “healing truama'“ and why does focusing on the trauma and the healing prevent us from doing that work?

I've been in a very intense process the past two and a half months, writing my talk for this TED Talk coming up in a couple weeks in Chicago. And the intensity had way less to do with TED than it did with emotional barriers I bypassed when I was 19.

The part of you that feels like you need to reap the benefits of a moment by taking in as much as possible IN that moment is the part of you that is governed by not-enoughness and entitlement.

Your capacity to change your attitude and the way you speak is a purely intellectual process. However, until fundamental real-time feedback and profound somatic awareness-oriented change takes place, the core driver for the autonomic response remains unchanged.