Untended, the wounds we bear can lead to anxious reactivity and an inability to be truly “here,” which often results in diverse attempts at suppressing our pain through escapism or the creation of alternate interpretations that we choose to believe instead of our own. Yet to be marked by love calls for a difficult but liberating discovery: It’s in the compassionate confrontation of our wounds and trauma that we stumble toward wholeness, which, in turn, allows us to become agents of healing.
