Overcoming Binaries

Abuser or abused; powerful or powerless; right or wrong; safe or afraid; succeeding or failing; ok or not ok; healthy or sick – on suffering a trauma, our systems get stuck in these binaries. And then we can never feel completely at ease because we are not, at heart, one side of a binary. We feel tense even if we are on the “good” side of the binary.

We feel unease because we are both, not either or. We are wholeness.

It is this original wholeness that holds and heals us in the work.

To give one example: true health is not never getting sick but a state of being that can hold sickness and health with ease.