ignor(e/ance)
"Denial stops us from listening...It seduces us with our own desires and cleverly constructs walls around us to keep us safe." - Terry Tempest Williams
Trauma causes a kind of self-preserving ignorance. My childhood trauma caused me to repress my childhood memories. Many of my friends' trauma caused them to cut themselves off from their body and senses. This kind of ignorance can limit one's experience of suffering in ways that help them survive. It can also create more suffering, as when a person doesn't eventually move beyond these defense mechanisms, trapping themselves in isolation, often harming others in the process. Moving away from these defenses is unsettling. I want to move toward this unsettling space, expanding my senses, including my sense of self and kin.
see also: body, clinging, decolonization, groundlessness, kin(d), remember / memory / memorial, stable / settled, trauma
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"Denial stops us from listening...It seduces us with our own desires and cleverly constructs walls around us to keep us safe." - Terry Tempest Williams
Trauma causes a kind of self-preserving ignorance. My childhood trauma caused me to repress my childhood memories. Many of my friends' trauma caused them to cut themselves off from their body and senses. This kind of ignorance can limit one's experience of suffering in ways that help them survive. It can also create more suffering, as when a person doesn't eventually move beyond these defense mechanisms, trapping themselves in isolation, often harming others in the process. Moving away from these defenses is unsettling. I want to move toward this unsettling space, expanding my senses, including my sense of self and kin.
see also: body, clinging, decolonization, groundlessness, kin(d), remember / memory / memorial, stable / settled, trauma
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