Denial and Dignity: How to Live with Both
Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.
Last week I came across these words from a teacher of mine:
“All the good intentions in the world won’t make us capable of honesty.
Denial is a response to pain; it’s not a conscious choice to go into denial - it’s an expression of what we don’t let ourselves know.
We can’t make ourselves be aware.
We can work to help ourselves come home to our own body, to be capable of working with what comes up in us, as well as what might be coming up in others when they tell us what their experience has been.
This is the beginning of true ecology”
- Thea Elijah
It is such a gift when someone puts such profound insight into words so clear and concise.
What struck me here the most….
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