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Gavin's avatar

Trauma is often not so much what happens in the moment, but what happens - or doesn't happen - in the aftermath of the initial assault. Case in point the events of the last few years and where we find ourselves today. The barbaric lockdowns, forced masking, mandated injections and 24/7 fear porn was horrendous and shocking and, depending upon your circumstance, profoundly painful. But it's the aftermath that counts. Is the pain and wounding acknowledged or ignored and dismissed? I find the current deafening silence by every talking head in town, the total absence of accountability, the "cone of silence" as it has been described elsewhere, this has deepened the pain and grief, the sense of loss, the trauma of the last few years. This is why the calls for amnesty have been so insulting, so extremely tone deaf, to us in the awake, critical thinking movement. Right now it's hard to see any of this changing anytime soon, and so it seems the deep and mostly unspoken trauma within our society will exist for some time yet.

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David Schmitt, Ph.D.'s avatar

As I once suggested to you in conversation: St. Michael's Prayer. It is not just a mind trick.

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