The Place We Find Ourselves 122 A Pastor's Journey of Exploring His Story and Addressing His Trauma with Rich Villodas
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Oct 10, 2022 AI Snips
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Don't Skip The Past To Move Forward
- Forgetting the past isn't the same as refusing to explore how it shaped you.
- Rich argues we need to excavate family legacies to understand present behavior.
Corner Store Humiliation At Twelve
- At 12, Rich bought groceries with food stamps and a clerk ridiculed him publicly.
- He ran out ashamed and stored the shame without telling anyone.
Pandemic Debit Card Reenacts Shame
- Decades later a government debit card triggered the same shaking and shame when Rich paid at a grocery.
- The body reenacted the old wound even without full conscious memory.