In our society today, we do not have a common practice of connecting to our emotions and learning to move through traumatic events. Most people have great difficulty with emotions and tend to get stuck in repetitive emotional cycles that they cannot get out of. 

In addition to that, we have given so much attention to our mental faculties which has brought us great progress, yet has caused us to disconnect from our emotional body. As a consequence, we do not embody ourselves fully. 

I also realised that doing personal development work intellectually does not bring transformation. We need to embody the work. 

Little did I know that having a gun to my head at 16 years old would shape my future desire to teach people how to process traumatic events and understand how to use their emotions by embodying them instead of avoiding them. 

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