Healing the Healer Within: 8 Steps to Unleash Your Potential by Dr Cheri McDonald

Author:Dr Cheri McDonald [McDonald, Dr Cheri]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Difference Press
Published: 2020-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

The Place of Developmental Trauma

Although this is easy to say, it may feel harder to create. But it is only as hard as you make it. The truth is this is a natural course of development when we are conscious. If we go through life on autopilot, we can miss the day-to-day opportunities in how we want to show up this day. We bypass the fork in the road that leads us to HOPE and beyond.

Conscious growing is allowing the sacred contract to unfold as we participate in our conviction to show up as a healer, practice our rituals to remain aligned with our mind, body, and spirit, and observe the process with refreshed and new eyes with each dawning day.

I like metaphors and one of my favorite symbols from God’s creation is the dragonfly. At birth, the dragonfly is born as a nymph: a shadowed creator that is nothing like the dragonfly it’s set to metamorphose into.

Nymphs hatch from the egg laid by a dragonfly in the water. They look like an alien who has no wings and a crusty hump on its back. It’s unimaginable they would evolve into a dragonfly. They are known as bottom feeders, eating whatever is left behind for them to devour; they will even betray their own and eat the smaller dragonfly nymphs as they develop. After four years, the nymph will cocoon in its own way and transform into the dragonfly it was created. As a dragonfly, the life span is just a season. Its metamorphous beauty offers a representation of change and HOPE, having unleashed and risen to their potential and the divine purpose that happens for all.

Now that you understand we all come from something, from the imprinting of our upbringing of great joy, as well as challenging hardship. As we have discussed, the trials, if unattended, can get carried around as unfinished business accumulating, weighing us down, and causing us to lose sight of the divine unfolding that is ours to own. In dragonfly terms, the hopes of flying dissipate as the cocooning process is not completed and the progress is grounded. Over time, this buildup of unresolved loss chains you to the past and prohibits you from rooting in the present, rebounding with resilience, and rising to your freedom. Instead, you are left in the yesterdays, lost, unable to learn how to fly forward into the present. This state creates a fight of futility; without rooting to complete the cocooning, your wings cannot rebound, and you cannot rise. This leaves you stuck where you are at and with only what you know, stuck as a bottom feeder blinded by the self – doubt and no HOPE.

Unable to complete your cocooning, you become vulnerable to disturbances of the negative paradigms of the past. Like Pavlov’s dog, you wake up to a new day only to find it Groundhog Day, as you are caught on the hamster wheel of illusion. This evolves into patterns of stuck-ness, that manifest as overwhelming feelings of fear and regret throw you into a cycle of self-loathing and learned helplessness.

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