Peace

While this many not yet be a necessarily happy story, it is one I hope can show some resiliency. I got into meditation out of necessity. I was first introduced to the practice by a trauma specialist. I was shocked at how not only more in control of my emotions I became, but I instantly was starving. I remember Dr. Madden out in Santa Barbara tell me that people either store stress in their chest, stomach or in their head. There was an instant connection to meditation.. the only problem was I didn't know how easy it was to do.. I thought it was some specialty service provided by a doctor.

Not true.

Nobody can patent meditation. 

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   I meditate as a healthy way to channel my anxiety. My anxiety now fuels my practice, rather than allow it to get the best of me and cause me to blackout and wrap my car around a tree.. true story. All good. I've blacked out half a dozen times, have the good old classic panic attacks, generalized anxiety as well as PTSD (a stress disorder I believe millions of people are undiagnosed coming out of this traumatic pandemic)

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I would love to say I've overcome all of this and most of it I have, but it's a process. I do however know I have the tools to handle whatever comes my way.

 

"The lower you are, the higher the stars" - I wrote that.. not to brag

 

I'm proud of who I am and what I've overcome. I'm a survivor of sexual assault. I'm also a guy. I know there is a stigma to be tough, but I am tough. I don't shy away from my past but I also don't dwell on it. How I overcome this, not the act itself is what I hope defines me. 

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If I can help one person in auradell transition from being a victim to a survivor, the origin of the company is a success. 

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