Wound Alchemy
Widening narratives beyond the tyrannical isolations of a suffering-self and imbuing you with the agency to choose a narrative that supports deeper integration and healing, wound alchemy enables a perceiving and engaging of multiplicities: that your pain is not simple, nor singularly yours.
Allowing Experience to Transform
post-traumatic growth
through trauma-informed lens
To be alive, to move in the world as skin, bone, and blood is to be entangled within a vast spectrum of experience. Experiences whose manifestations are an entwining of the intergenerational, ancestral, ecological, mystical, geographical, cosmological, and historical that we dance with from personal vantage points. Porous and soft-bellied, vulnerability is a part of our enfleshed birthright. Vulnerability renders us capable of transformation.
Wounding presents in all manner of shape and form, cyclically in-forming and de-forming our conceptions of the world and our place in it. Notions of love, safety, and belonging are inevitably stretched and twisted about as our experiential entanglements invoke vortices of metamorphosis. Worldview certainties become dislodged. Unmoored, tides of the unknown beckon us toward initiatory landscapes that speak in shapeshifting tongues, conjuring cellular reconfigurations.
Trauma, the living spirit of a wound, is a terra-ing force, making and un-making our lives.
Contextualizing trauma in this way ritualizes the crucible of our most heartbreaking and unbearable experiences, opening up the possibility for integration and transformation. Sensitizing us in unforeseen ways, our greatest pains and aching torments often contain our greatest gifts. Like the Earth that is forever changed by ecological and cosmic forces, from massive storms and rumbling earthquakes to hurtling asteroids and solar flares, we too are forever changed.
Rather than trying to return to a former shape, or even move ahead, sacralizing wounds is to stay-with our becoming from ever-increasing places of psychospiritual, communal, and eco-mystical resourcing.
Widening narratives beyond the tyrannical isolations of a suffering-self and imbuing one with the agency to choose a narrative that supports deeper integration and healing, wound alchemy enables the perceiving and engaging of multiplicities: that our pain is not simple, nor only singularly "mine." It extends across holographic fields of time where the ripplings of what-has-been lives through us awaiting alchemization.