“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of the terrible” (Rainer Maria Rilke) This line has been swirling around my ahead alongside two other concepts. First, that trauma healing begins with beauty; and second, that trauma healing requires (safely) confronting traumatic memories. Beauty is the proper starting point to transformation and healing. Beauty might also be the best way to confront traumatic memories and their associated feelings of terror, shame, grief and rage. At least, that’s what the Psalms seem to indicate.
Terrible Beauty, Part II
Terrible Beauty, Part II
Terrible Beauty, Part II
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of the terrible” (Rainer Maria Rilke) This line has been swirling around my ahead alongside two other concepts. First, that trauma healing begins with beauty; and second, that trauma healing requires (safely) confronting traumatic memories. Beauty is the proper starting point to transformation and healing. Beauty might also be the best way to confront traumatic memories and their associated feelings of terror, shame, grief and rage. At least, that’s what the Psalms seem to indicate.