Depression (part I)

*The ideas explored in this podcast are not intended to be a replacement for qualified mental health care. Depression affects the lives of over 300 million people worldwide, according to WHO stats. The prevailing perspective is that it's a chemical imbalance in the brain.  This perspective is being dismantled as our understanding of trauma and the nervous system evolves and we begin to see the link between early childhood experiences and the development of mental illness and disease.

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.