Retreats For Emotional Pain

Reclaiming Our Aliveness, Joy and Passion

With Jon Terrell, M.A.

We offer retreats for emotional pain. We all come into the world full of life, free, wild, and open. We are present, fully alive, fully passionate–and have access to core feelings...joy, sadness, fear, and anger. We cry, laugh, are frustrated, etc., and change moment to moment. We don't have any self-control.

Very soon, though, we start to lose that aliveness.

As babies begin to learn the many abilities and skills that make us human, we tame our wildness. We develop an ego, a sense of self, which we need to navigate the world, express ourselves, and grow.  We learn to modulate our feelings and interact with the people around us, our family.

We start to suppress our feelings. This is good and necessary, as we grow up. But in this process, we can lose a huge amount of the aliveness and freedom we were born with.

When you compare an adult to the same person as a baby, you see tremendous physical and mental development, but often a huge drop in vitality and aliveness.

Where does all that life energy go? It goes underground. It gets suppressed below awareness, into our bodies. It gets locked up in "the story of our life."

And many of our stories are heavy, sad, tiring. Others have angry stories of all the things done wrong. Others have scary stories of all the ways they were hurt and victimized.

Our retreats for emotional pain help people reclaim the power and light they have suppressed, so they can live more fully, joyfully, in the world. In just a few days, hundreds of people have experienced a return of their Light, their power. and their love.

We lose access to much of our life force as we learn how to survive and live in the world. This journey goes something like this:

We suppress our grief when it is not acceptable to our parents and others. Boys especially learn to suppress grief so they won't be shamed as a "crybaby." And in some families everyone suppresses their sadness and grief–it's just not accepted–and so it becomes banished from consciousness. 

We suppress our fears because we’re told that being afraid or scared is bad and we should "be brave." Many of us have banished our fears..., and later we may find we are anxious and don't know why.

We suppress our anger because our parents, friends, teachers, and most everybody reject it. Almost all of us have banished anger. Although a few of us are the designated family angry person.  Unfortunately, along with anger, we suppress a lot of our vitality, sexuality, and power. With our anger banished, we can become victims of others and of life, or experience hostility toward others without knowing why.

When we suppress our feelings, we also suppress our power and our light. We can find ourselves depressed, living a narrow life without joy, and having trouble in close relationships.

We become tamed, and in the process we lose the life energy and sense of self we need to function fully and feel whole.

We reject aspects of ourselves, especially feelings, that our parents and others around us deemed unacceptable. We build our personalities to reflect what our parents and siblings deem acceptable, and soon that becomes who we are. 

But we are more than that. Our retreats help you reclaim all of you and come more fully alive and present again.

When we push our rejected feelings below our awareness, they don't disappear; they just go underground. We feel stuck! The feelings are right here in our bodies, and at the retreats we can help our bodies bring banished feelings into awareness so they can quickly evolve and be owned as essential parts of ourselves.

We learn to accept our feelings and welcome them home.

Retreats For Emotional Pain

Many people come to our retreats because of emotional pain from a specific tragic event or loss. Others attend because their lives have become unmanageable or stuck. Reasons for attending include:

• death of a loved one
• divorce or separation
• feeling depressed or stuck
• caught up in anger, anxiety, or grief
• Being trapped in their heads and not feeling alive, joyful, happy
• Needing to heal trauma

At our retreats for emotional pain, participants come alive again by accepting the parts of themselves, especially feelings, that they have rejected. They learn how their bodies hold those suppressed feelings as pain, tension, and tightness. And they learn to transform grief, anger, and fear back into pure aliveness, joy, inspiration, and passion.

For many, it is a whole new start, a reboot, a new chance at life.

Below are links to our retreats for emotional pain:

Go To Grief, Loss, and Difficult Emotions Retreat

Go To Florida Grief, Loss, and Difficult Emotions Retreat

Go To Emotional Wellness Retreat

Go to Grief Pain

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