Up: [[Trauma]] Created: 2023-07-23 We live in the moment. We don’t live in the stories that we tell ourselves. Unless we are trauma survivors. Then our imagination is hijacked by fear and we tell ourselves a repetitive story of how we’re going to keep improving ourselves so we can have meaningful lives. In this situation, we can’t be open to our uncensored inner world, and we aren’t open to love or beauty. There’s a gorgeous statement that Kalsched shares from Plato who said that an experience of beauty is just the soul glimpsing where it was in that early time when it had wings and lived with the gods. This is not a direct quote. I haven't found the quote yet.