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It is more accurate to say that a child who has lacked basic nurturing, living in an emotional drought, goes into a state of dormancy, or hibernation. They may detach from the reality of their world to protect themselves, and like a plant under stress from acid rain, or one that is planted in poor soil, their minds cease to grow and flower.
Richard Rohr, “If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.”2
fear and trauma have to be transformed, or they will stay in the mind like an unsheathed knife, a real and deadly blade moving in unreal time, transmitting pain to others.
