Tagged With "Spirituality"

Strengthening the wounded soul can improve psychological and physical wellbeing and help to complete the recovery process. Although ACEs, understandably, can numb feelings, including spiritual feelings, once healing has progressed, spiritual feelings can often be successfully cultivated.

Wonderful essay! Spirituality (but not necessarily organized religion) must be part of healing the trauma of childhood abuse or neglect. I would call your attention to the work of Leonard Shengold MD, a psychoanalyst who originally published an article on "Soul Murder" from child abuse or neglect in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 27(3) in 1979 with 2 following books on the subject. I agree with him that the depth of trauma to children by trusted party maltreatment can...

Thank you Dr. Schiraldi for this wonderful post. ACES affect us deeply and leads to what Dr. Eduardo Duran calls, 'soul wounds.' So healing and care of the soul are central to our PACES work. Thomas Moore's book 'CARE OF THE SOUL: A GUIDE FOR CULTIVATING DEPTH AND SACREDNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE (1992)' speaks to our need to care for soul rather than cure the soul. Our work at The Montana Institute begins with SPIRIT 1st as a way to cultivate sacred space for soulwork that we do with HOPE -...