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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
June 10, 2024
The focus for today is:
The easiest place to find peace is in the present moment.
Today's inspiration was written by Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver:
We know how, as adults with wounds from trauma and abuse, we often were unable to discern what we truly liked, wanted, or needed. This represented a deep spiritual wound that we didn’t know how to heal. It made us mistrust our own instincts and inner guidance. This wound could only be healed by gently returning to our bodies.
If you felt unsafe in your body and taught yourself to detach from it regularly, you’ve likely spent much of your life living in your mind. Your thoughts may draw you backward, and memories that arise may leave you feeling sadness, anger, or regret.
Or, you may spend your time thinking about the future. But, for survivors, the future usually leaves you feeling anxious or worried. The easiest place to find peace is in the present moment. Fortunately, concentrating on the “now” is also the quickest path back to feeling safe in your body.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
How to Heal the Spiritual Wound from Childhood Trauma or Abuse
Written by /onni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of finding peace in the present moment (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: So many of us live in our minds... in our fear of the future, or in our anger or hurt about the past. Yet all of these thoughts are not real as they are not "now". They are thoughts or memories of how you experienced something, or they are projections of what will happen. But the only true moment is now. That's the only reality that exists. Now. So let go of the past and the future, and live moment to moment in the reality of this moment, one breath at a time.
Our focus for today: The easiest place to find peace is in the present moment.
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RELATED BOOK: Healing Begins with Us
Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond
by Ronni Tichenor, PhD, and Jennie Weaver, FNP-BC
Healing Begins With Us is the story of two sisters who weren’t supposed to be friends. Ronni and Jennie grew up in a home with addiction, mental illness, and abuse issues that generated unhealthy dynamics and often pitted them against each other.
In this book, they tell the raw truth about their childhood experiences, including the abuse that occurred between them. As they moved toward adulthood, they managed to come together and chart a path that allowed them to heal their relationship, and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and abuse in creating their own families. Using their personal and professional experience, they offer advice to help others who are looking to heal from their own painful upbringings, or heal their sibling relationships.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as an Audiobook and as a Kindle edition.
About the Authors
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan. Jennie Weaver received her degree from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in family practice and mental health.
Their new book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond (Heart Wisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
Learn more at heartandsoulsisters.net
