Three Ways Religious Trauma Has Kept You From True Empathy (And How to Heal It)

As an Artist, my duty is to feel. To feel what is beneath the surface, and give that the light of my attention.

One of the things I've found, is how much religious trauma stunts our ability to be able to genuinely f-e-e-l into our environments. Our ability to be able to sense what is happening realtime.

Religious trauma circulates in the mind. These structures that only exist in right or wrong. When we have that reinforced over our natural ability to f-e-e-l, we descend from the mind into the body, without the bodies input connected to it first.

This is the first way religious trauma keeps you from True Empathy. Conditioning you into Right or Wrong, that is fed through the mind only, which stunts your growth to be able to feel your way through situations.

When we stunt our ability to feel, our lens into the world becomes naturally jagged. It becomes saturated with stories, mental examples, doctrine, all fed to the mind specifically. To create a series of 'ways to be' before having experienced life itself.

The second way that Religious Trauma keeps you from true empathy, is by keeping you from the present moment. Locking you into past stories, as your main reference point, instead of real time building a direct relationship with life.

When we don't build that direct relationship with life, we start to lose the satisfaction in life, and become codependent on the systems that have told us what the way of life is meant to be.

When we become codependent on these systems, our ability to create ourselves diminishes. Not from lack of creativity, but from the force in which the structures have heavily influenced the mind of the person. Like blinds on a horse, to have the horse only be steered in the direction you choose for the horse to go.

Thirdly, the way religious trauma keeps you from true empathy, is from its way of indoctrinating which paths you are meant to walk on. When a path is pre-deposited into a person. Without life experience, the path doesn't become a path, but a cage. Encaging the person, into a certain identity of self, that was never developed through its unique experience with life. When we take on these identities, creativity no longer has a clear access channel to the person, to support them in making the life that was designed by God/Goddess themselves, based on the persons needs, desires, and wants spiritually. The spiritual essence of the person, which is a direct tie to the creative energy of the person, has no container to ground. Which leads into countless addictions, self hatred, feelings of unfulfillment, and this off-ness that leaves you wondering, where do you truly belong. Because of this, true empathy, isn't given an opportunity to grow, from the mud that is the human experience, and the life being the lotus that grows from that depth of mud.

Ways of healing religious trauma, is by once again, grounding into the body, and allowing oneself to grow somatic awareness of our existence. Through that commitment of life, reestablishing that relationship as priority, everything else naturally heals on its own. Never in the way you 'think' it's meant to heal, but always in the way, that was originally designed FOR you to step into. What's unique about somaCREATIVE™, is not only do you build your somatic awareness of your body, but you are also given a tool, to retrain the mind as a friend. Not this ego thing you're meant to kill for ego deaths. No. You get to train the ego, as a friend, who supports you in your creations. One stroke at a time.

If this resonated with something in your body — that recognition is the beginning.

Permission to Feel is a somatic coloring and doodling book designed to help you gently rebuild that relationship with your body, one breath and one stroke at a time. No doctrine. No right or wrong. Just you, a pen, and the creative energy that was always yours.

Available on Amazon now. PDF instant download also available.

And if you're not ready for the book yet — the free 7-day somatic journey is a gentle place to begin. Linked below.

Con Amor, Corazón, Jessenia Nauta