Welcome dear reader to the Art of Being Human: this website is dedicated to all those that seek peace, happiness and fulfillment.
Many years ago I was diagnosed with post-traumatic-stress-disorder, due to severe childhood abuse and was given no hope of recovery. Not wishing to remain an emotional cripple, I set about the process of healing myself. During this time I learnt that my childhood traumas had damaged me profoundly, and taught me that I was worthless, inadequate and couldn’t cope with life. Even though I became successful in my chosen career, and strong-minded, hidden within me were the memories of my much wounded child. This had created a conflict between ‘who I felt I needed to be’ and ‘who I was afraid I was’, causing me to despise my apparent inadequacies, because they scared the hell out of me. This conflict within, developed into a conflict with life, and others who didn’t agree with my world-view; creating fear, loneliness and shame for me.
However, when I got to know myself better, I began to realise that actually, all my fear, resentment, guilt and loneliness, were a gift, but to receive the gift, I had to let go of the belief that my weaknesses made me unlovable - I had to forgive myself for not being what I thought I should be. Forgiveness, I found, was a process of decomposing the ego defences that I had erected, to protect myself from others, particularly, my care-givers. I started with awakening to my need for change; acknowledging my projections onto others; being accountable for my thoughts feelings and actions; appreciating the lesson that life was giving me, and accepting that no one was to blame, particularly, myself. This approach, I have now developed into a personal system of healing, which I have called the Life Process, and prompted me to write my book....see below or....Continue
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