Healing Trauma Through Presence

In this podcast Eckhart answers questions about healing from
childhood trauma. He says it’s important to acknowledge the
trauma and to work through it, but not to get stuck in it. He
believes while we may feel like a victim it is not ultimately who
we are. Eckhart shares stories about his own childhood trauma. He
explains that his father had intense anger issues and abandoned
Eckhart and his mother when he was just eleven years old. As an
adult Eckhart later realized that his father had been traumatized
by his own childhood. He says dysfunctional family patterns are
handed down generation after generation. He says healing happens
when we break the cycle and that by practicing presence, we
realize we are more than all the painful things we’ve
experienced.