The trauma of omission

Adverse childhood experience:

• physical or sexual or emotional abuse, a divorce, a parent being jailed, violence in the family, a parent being evicted, a parent being mentally ill, a parent dying.

For each of these adverse childhood experiences, the risk of:

Addiction manifests in any behavior that a person enjoys, finds relief in, and therefore, craves in the short term but suffers negative consequences in the long term, and doesn’t give up despite the negative consequences.

Addiction is about behavior not about the substances...

• How we see the world determines the world that we live in. The Buddha was a great psychologist in that he recognized that our perceptions shaped the world that we live in.
• What he didn’t say, and that’s where modern psychology comes in, is that before, with our mind, we create our ...

A trauma isn't:

• A divorce when you were small, and your parents fighting
• Your mother’s depression
• Your father’s alcoholism 
• Your parents’ argumentation 
• Physical or sexual abuse or something else

The trauma is

Gifted child or the sensitive child: the more sensitive he or she is the more he feels the pain and stress of the environment:

• sensitivity magnifies the pain that we have
• sensitivity leads to more creativity: there’s a really link between creativity and sensitivity, and creat...