Not Getting Stuck in Pain | Healing Trauma & Living More Fully

Pain is an inevitable part of being human, but suffering arises when pain isn’t met, processed, or allowed to move.

In this episode of Bodhisattva Conversations, I explore how trauma and unprocessed pain can keep us stuck in survival patterns, and how healing becomes possible through awareness, presence, and compassionate self-listening.

Rather than bypassing pain or rushing “healing,” this conversation gently examines:

• The many forms trauma can take - past and present
• How unhealed pain shows up as patterns in our lives
• The way the body holds what the mind cannot
• The non-linear stages of healing and integration
• What truly supports transformation and inner freedom

This episode investigates how to move from survival into living - from contraction into choice, and to remember that healing does not mean erasing the past, but no longer being ruled by it.

This reflection is for anyone on a path of self-healing, inner work, and presence.

In this episode of The Practice of Being, I reflect on death, not as something to fear, but as one of life’s greatest teachers.

From early childhood moments to spiritual traditions, lived experience, and sitting with people at the end of their lives, this episode explores how learning to die allows us to live more fully, consciously, and lovingly.

We look at why the fear of death arises, how identification with the body and mind creates suffering, and how practices such as presence, meditation, and self-inquiry help us remember who we truly are.

When we begin to clear attachment to the created self - our stories, identities, and conditioning - something profound is revealed: what we truly are was never born and can never die.

This is an invitation to meet death gently, to soften into life, and to live from a deeper knowing that there is no ending, only a change of experience.

In this episode, I explore what it really means to raise our vibration, not through forcing positivity, but through awareness, clearing, and presence.

We are energetic beings, and our thoughts, emotions, and lived experiences all shape our vibration.

Many of the feelings that lower our energy, arise from early experiences and repeated psychological loops that play out again and again in our lives.

In this episode, I share how becoming aware of these patterns, and learning to pause, breathe, and meet what we’re feeling, allows energy to move and our vibration to naturally rise.

We explore:

• What vibration is and how we sense it in ourselves and others
• The link between thoughts, feelings, and childhood conditioning
• Clearing emotional loops rather than bypassing them
• Everyday practices that support a higher vibration
• Nervous system regulation and the role of the body
• Identity, responsibility, and remembering our true nature

Raising our vibration is not about becoming someone else, it’s about coming back to who we truly are.