n ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such exp

On my way back from a conference presentation in Santa Fe I met a therapist in the airport shuttle taking us to the airport. As we launched into a lengthy discussion I learned that she was there doing a workshop training other therapists to work with individuals who had experienced trauma and who were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

I also learned that she herself had been trained by a well known and internationally renowned psychologist who I knew and had heard the year before speaking at a conference in Energy Psychology in Toronto, Canada.

As we talked I learned that she had a very interesting yet dissonant philosophy on the role of trauma in one's life experience. As she put it she considered "trauma to be a gift to be learned from".

Well on hearing this I immediately recoiled and let her know that I absolutely did not resonate with her statement of belief. I noted that for me "trauma was trauma" pure and simple and that if there was less of it here humanity would be much better off for it.

She clearly was taken aback and didn't know what else to say so the conversation ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such exp

trauma and who were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

I also learned that she herself had been trained by a well known and internationally renowned psychologist who I knew and had heard the year before speaking at a conference in Energy Psychology in Toronto, Canada.

As we talked I learned that she had a very interesting yet dissonant philosophy on the role of trauma in one's life experience. As she put it she considered "trauma to be a gift to be learned from".

Well on hearing this I immediately recoiled and let her know that I absolutely did not resonate with her statement of belief. I noted that for me "trauma was trauma" pure and simple and that if there was less of it here humanity would be much better off for it.

She clearly was taken aback and didn't know what else to say so the conversation ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such exp

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As we talked I learned that she had a very interesting yet dissonant philosophy on the role of trauma in one's life experience. As she put it she considered "trauma to be a gift to be learned from".

Well on hearing this I immediately recoiled and let her know that I absolutely did not resonate with her statement of belief. I noted that for me "trauma was trauma" pure and simple and that if there was less of it here humanity would be much better off for it.

She clearly was taken aback and didn't know what else to say so the conversation ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such exp

I absolutely did not resonate with her statement of belief. I noted that for me "trauma was trauma" pure and simple and that if there was less of it here humanity would be much better off for it.

She clearly was taken aback and didn't know what else to say so the conversation ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such exp

n ended abruptly.

I have run into such beliefs about the role of trauma before, especially among therapists whose life and work is about healing individuals so they may "learn" and "grow” through their traumatic experiences.

It is believed by many that without such experiences we might not learn the important moral, ethical or spiritual lessons we were supposedly sent here to learn. As a result this might disrupt what many consider to be our spiritual evolution.

My questions to you, if you subscribe to such a philosophy are:

1. Do you like being traumatized?

2. If not, then why not?

3. If you believe trauma is a necessary component of your spiritual growth then why not seek it out, why avoid it?

4. If you believe that trauma is necessary for the spiritual growth of others then why not go out and traumatize them?

5. Imagine going to someone who has just been severely traumatized to tell them that they are "lucky" to have had such a "wonderfully uplifting" experience and that they should be thankful for it. How does that feel?

6. If trauma was your God’s plan for you should it not make you feel joyful, content, happy, uplifted, more loving, and a sense of greater peace knowing that? Is this how the traumatic experience actually makes you feel?

I'm sure that some or all of the above made you feel a certain amount of discomfort w