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"When we come back to our center and we return to our inner knowing that is where our power lies. In this space we can heal our trauma."
-Lauren Radiance
There are ways to heal oneself without pharmaceuticals (although I do not condone going off of medication if that is helping you).
My mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and I have never gotten “diagnosed” myself because I view my mother under the lens of a hypochondriac. I have never agreed with living in such a way that you give away all of your power to an industry that only sees you as a number, not a human being.
In my experience, training the mind, and taking the time to understand yourself, and pause on the -in-breath (pause in that moment and know that it is okay) allows me to feel safe.
Then, on the exhale, finding comfort in soothing oneself.
We need to clear trauma so that we do not develop different types of degenerative diseases and mood disorders that may run havoc in our lives. Dis-ease is a very slow, progressive path. It happens after someone needs a breakthrough, or an intervention, and here they are now.
I was listening to this gentleman who has worked with well over 1,000 people who were homeless or displaced in San Francisco. He said, “there are people who barely had shirts on their backs, who were refugees, who were happy as clams, because they recognized that birth and death are the same thing.”
This life is short, in the grand scheme of things. When we come back to our center and back to our source, we remember who we are as individuals and return to our inner knowing. That is where our power lies and this is where we can heal our trauma. We do this by understanding the way that the brain works.
The Buddha understood almost 5,000 years ago what clinical science is starting to reveal in terms of human cognition. Training the mind is the way out of suffering.
Suffering is inevitable as a human, but when we can move past that, and seek to be compassionate towards ourselves and others… that is where real healing begins.
May this story of my journey inspire you to dream
big.
My intention with this book is to...
share clinical research and evidence-based thought exercises with people to show that these resources help to heal the mind, the body, and the brain. The mind is an incredibly intricate, spectacular entity and we still do not understand all parts of it.
Yet, every day presents a new opportunity to explore… and when we can understand that, when we feel sad or depressed, this is what eastern philosophies might refer to as a Samskara, which is a Sanskrit word for “stored energy pain”.
These deeply stored energy pains live within us and we need to release them, and that could be through many different mediums, whether that’s through journal writing, drawing, going for a run, flowing with poi, juggling knives, fire spinning, hooping, dancing, or djing (mixing music).
We have to understand that we can use our trauma as a channel for our creative impulses.
FINDING YOUR OWN WAY
Evidence-Based Mindfulness Techniques to Transform Your Life
A list of quick plays you can make to self-regulate and normalize, so that you can carry on with your day, perhaps feeling more productive and happy.
When you were born, you were given the right to this life. Hundreds upon thousands upon trillions of lifeforms and bacteria. Here you are one in a few seven billion humans. Your life has meaning.
My intention is that the reader feels as though I am metaphorically holding their hand as we move together through a step-by-step, easy-to-follow process.
May this book give you a sense of purpose. I hope that this book helps to change the world, and provides some helpful life hacks. It is a compilation of my decades of research into the self and how we can apply different practices to improve our lives.
I created this book based upon letting inspiration flow through me as I give thanks to the Universe.
Contemplating, and then moving beyond the contemplation to change others’ lives.
This is my devotion to that practice, for you, shared with love.
"The mind is an incredibly intricate, spectacular entity and we still do not understand all parts of it."
-LAUREN RADIANCE
• Questions & Answers •
What's the inspiration behind writing this book?
I feel called to write this book because I see people in my close circle in pain, and I see alternatives to the way that they are living.
What's your intention for writing this book?
My intention is to help people who are hurting inside. They may have these old patterns of trauma showing up in their adult lives impacting how they show up for themselves, their kids, and their partners.
What excites you about this book?
It helps you manage the unwritten rules of life. I wish I had been given a copy of this on my first day in middle school. It is a big scary world out there for a sensitive empathic little creature.
Who did you write this book for?
I share this book with love and wrote it for anyone who is wondering how to use evidence based mindfulness techniques to heal ancestral trauma. Some refer to this as epigenetics.
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