Triumphing Over Trauma

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Welcome and blessings. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages where we invite the sacred into modern-day reality. And sometimes the sacred appears as an event, an accident, an illness, an unpleasant or traumatic event, and we might ask ourselves why life is challenging us in such a brutal way. So no matter how difficult the situation is and truths we’re being asked to grow, to evolve. And sometimes we don’t like it. But if we can really embrace this, then we have the opportunity to triumph over trauma, over illness, over many, many things. In fact, the key to our freedom too often is found in forgiveness. And forgiveness is sometimes difficult. It can come in layers. If something really horrible has taken place it’s not that easy to forgive it, but it also holds us in a prison.

So we’re going to go into this in our talk today. It’s not really what the person has done, but it’s that we don’t want to carry the pain anymore. Anyway, let me introduce my guest. My guest today is Jennifer Kauffman, who has made an inspiring movie about overcoming trauma. She was in the Boston Marathon bombings. So this is a big thing that happened. She made a movie about it. In fact, she’s made a lot of movies since then. This is really exciting. She got on her path because of this. Her movie’s called There’s Got to Be More To Life. I watched it. I was completely inspired by it. So healing naturally, Jennifer crawls her way up from mental, emotional, and physical trauma, including PTSD, and eventually learns to thrive in all aspects of life.

And this is a timely movie because the entire globe is experiencing some sort of PTSD after the pandemic in some way. A bomb went off for many of us, and the messages in this film are sure to warm your heart. I know they were a really good reminder for me. And the documentary also features a lot of my favorite speakers, such as Dr. Bruce Lipton. And I really love his idea that humanity is a sort of caterpillar. We’ve been caterpillars, eating all the leaves, eating the planet up, and we had to go into the chrysalis and now we’re emerging as butterflies. So we are all re-imagining ourselves right now. 

I’m going to take a quick ad break and when I get back I’m going to introduce Jennifer and we are going to discuss the ways in which we can triumph over trauma and illness.

I really want you to go check out her film, There’s Got To Be More To Life. And she’s got some other films that she’s working on that we’re going to talk about. You can see Jennifer Kauffman’s movie trailer on jenniferkauffman.com. So stay tuned. We will be right back.