Naked and Broken Digital Cartoon

Naked and Broken

Whether or not you believe in a literal creation, God, or Satan, I think the creation story has some important ideas to teach us.

One is that there are forces that would like us to feel shame.

Adam and Eve did something they shouldn't have.
Then they realized they were naked. 
Then they felt shame.

"Who told you that you were naked?" indicates there was nothing wrong with their nakedness. It's just how they were. It was fine. They were okay. It wasn't a bad thing.

Until it was called a bad thing and then had to be covered... hidden.

Trauma is normal.

But this doesn't mean we're broken.

It means we've allowed it to make us think we are separated from our wholeness.

As Gabor Maté says, "Healing is wholeness." Which means we are healed when we recognize and get back in touch with our primal wholeness.

And as Sinéad said about her therapist, who said, "You come to therapy to find out there's nothing wrong with you."

Please don't quickly dismiss these thoughts. I know for many of us who've grown up in the Church, this sounds wrong and even offensive. Demonic. Satanic. But this is what happens when an embedded and cherished idea (a belief) is questioned: we immediately resist!

When it is, in my opinion, this evil so-called "satanic" force that would convince us we are broken and therefore need to be ashamed and live accordingly.

You're naked? So what?

You feel separated from your wholeness? Realize this is an illusion and be healed!