The Collective Trauma That We All Feel
- Traci P Cook
- Aug 23
- 2 min read
The same adjustment that our eyes take to the external darkness, our soul takes internally, and it begins to examine the things that have traumatized us, that have made us fear nobody's coming, nobody cares, nobody's going to rescue us, and we're not safe. Deep inside, the soul is working to mend all of the little breaks and the fractures and the ruptures that have created huge traumas in our lives.
If we stand arm in arm with those around us, we see that there's this big cavernous open space, this great abyss of desperation, of darkness that's deep within. If we open our eyes and look externally, we see that same darkness. Because in this climate that we're in right now, that's how it looks. Everything outside is dark. Everything is being erased, and everything is being taken away and there's nowhere to be safe anymore. If we haven't done the internal work of mending with the soul and letting the heart do the stitching and letting the work happen within us, then when we open our eyes, it still feels very desperate, feels very scary, and it looks very hopelessly dark.
But in the holding together of arms, arm in arm, each of us working internally to restore that light, to restore that faith, to believe from our hearts and with our hearts, then the eye of the soul can see the light. The eye of the heart can actually pierce through the darkness. It can actually mend the collective trauma that we all feel. We can actually kneel in prayer. We can actually bow our heads, believing with everything that we've got that, there is a solution. What connects the tapestry for all of us is the love that we feel within ourselves. Because love is the piece that runs like a thread throughout our bodies, connecting our souls, one soul at a time until the collective soul is one.
The collectiveness of the entire nation is one. One gigantic heart, one gigantic eye that sees with love and pierces through the darkness. So when the eye opens and goes through the body to see the external darkness, the light begins to appear. There's a scripture that says, "Once I saw dimly, but then face to face." This is what happens when the soul's eye and the heart's eye uses love to see. It begins dimly. But then the collective truth occurs –arms and arms, heart to heart, everyone stitched together with love, holding us then as one, and we begin to open our eyes and see face-to-face the truth and the power of love.
As the founder of Arts2Health2Wellness, Traci is dedicated to guiding the resilient back to their inherent lightness, joy, and self-love through creative dream productions. Traci helps those who have felt powerless for too long reclaim their natural purity and rewrite their stories of resilience into legacies of trust, faith, and love.
Schedule a consultation or coaching session with Traci Patterson Cook by emailing dream@iamtraci.com
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