Season 2 Episode 6 Honouring the Past, Loving Our Parts

The theme of ‘Honouring Our Past & Loving Our Parts’ in the Grow Free Community for November 2021 refers to a process of turning towards the parts of us that got exiled from our awareness during and following traumatic experiences and learning to relate to them with care and compassion.  It refers to tuning into the bodily memory of experiences that were too much for us and to letting the raw feelings (not sanitized or rationalized ones) be felt and expressed in safe ways.  It refers to holding space for all the personalities that got stuck at different developmental stages and opening up supportive dialogue between them.In these ways, we can not only honour the past, but also digest it.  This is something that begins to happen organically the safer we begin to feel with the feelings of being unsafe.  We can then process them, take the learning and the value from the experiences and release the rest. I was delighted when, last month, a new member arrived in Grow Free who has focused a lot on getting to know the different parts or archetypes within his psyche, as he describes it.  So delighted, in fact, that I asked him to join me for the podcast.  We had a few technical issues as we were recording but ... 'Welcome Athol'.  You can find our conversation below.  I feel like we will hear more from Athol in the coming months.