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Mental Health

Can all triggers be healed (digested and dissolved)?

November 9, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

When I say that, given the right conditions, all triggers can be devoured, digested and dissolved, some people get upset and respond by saying that no, they can’t. They outline and explain their experience, stating how and why their trigger can not be devoured, digested and dissolved. This is attachment to triggers. This is identification …

Category: Awakening, Mental Health, Mindset, Tantra, YogaTag: healing, samskara, trigger

Healing the Parent-Child Relationship with Ancestral Trauma Healing Practice

June 23, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

It’s Day 28 of my Ancestral Karma Prostrations Practice – what scientists might call Ancestral Trauma Healing. It’s the second forty day practice I’ve done on this, although this time around, I’ll be going for longer than forty days. Maybe 90. Although Christopher Wallis, one of the teachers I learned this practice from, says to …

Category: Awakening, Healing, Liberation, Mental Health, TantraTag: ancestral trauma, trauma, trauma healing, trauma resolving

How to Resolve Trauma in Real Time with Tantrik Yoga Practices

June 18, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

I’m in a strip-mining phase of the awakening journey. This shows up through intense emotional triggers, and old trauma nervous system responses. I’m being called to resolve trauma in the system in real time. Fortunately I’ve got the practices, tools, techniques and skills todo this. Most importantly, my Beloved is able to hold the space …

Category: Awakening, Mental Health, TantraTag: Liberation, mental health, resolving trauma, tantra, tantrik yoga practice, trauma

Childhood Trauma and the Spiritual Path

June 11, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Last night I watched Dr. Gabor Maté’s documentary The Wisdom of Trauma. It comes at a time when I’m realising the extent to which childhood trauma responses have controlled – and derailed – my life, and impacted my spiritual path. Three weeks ago, my son and I moved in with my Beloved and his children, …

Category: Awakening, Healing, Mental Health, TantraTag: childhood trauma, childhood wounds, Dr. Gabor Maté, THe Wisdom of Trauma, trauma, wounds

Todd Muller, Panic Attacks and the Shame of Mental Illness

August 10, 2020 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

The front page article of the Herald on Saturday was a sympathetic interview with Todd Muller, he who was National leader for 53 days, and his wife Michelle. ‘I had anxiety. I experienced that quite severely and I had panic attacks,’ says Muller in the article. This is a man who has been involved in …

Category: Mental Health, Politics, The Best of Kara-Leah

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