Great words from a doctor and survivors. The second from someone with experience as both patient and mental health professional.
Helping, fixing or serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
"Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.... Fixing and helping create a distance between people, an experience of difference. We cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch." http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2328
"Healing to me does not mean returning to what one was before something went wrong. Wholeness does not necessarily mean normal. And even the word recovery is problematic because, frankly, I don’t want what I had before. Who wants to go backwards anyway? Healing means being whole even while still perhaps not functioning like others. To me it also suggests being even better than before for all that is learned on
the journey." http://beyondmeds.com/2012/03/15/healing-2/
Definitions of Healing on this survivor's blog:
“I define healing as a process of moving towards wholeness...."
"I like to think of the word ‘healing’ in the relationship to curing, as coming to terms with things as they are. What healing is is a process through which we come to terms with the actuality of our situation in the present moment. Kabat-Zinn, J. (2004)" http://determinedtoheal.org/about/
Three Principles of Trauma-Informed Care from survivor/activist Shery Mead
1. Learning vs. Helping
2. Relationship vs. the Individual
3. Hope & Possibility vs. Fear
http://acesconnection.com/video/three-principles-of-trauma-informed-care
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