I love your korero about trauma having a very real impact on a person’s life but them still having to take responsibility for their actions. Yes! I love reading how connection - facing a real person and seeing the impact of your actions in the flesh - gives a huge opportunity for healing and/or learning. For both parties. I like how you acknowledge that trauma doesn’t have a hierarchy - suffering affects us all in different ways. I appreciate your sharp perception of the system. I liked this whole korero! I’m also so sorry about all of the crimes committed against you. Just wanted to let you know I enjoy reading your newsletter. 😊
Hell's bells, Anna - what a piece of writing. Like you I understand the need to work through my instinctive unease about, and rejection of, this fatuous boot camp policy. I'm not sure I ever quite get there in response to the social media Outraged of Oamaru types, or to the politicians who should bloody well know better than to pucker up and dog whistle for all they are worth. Yet you do get there, with a level of heart and head engagement that I marvel at and so appreciate. You're right about the wairua being at the centre of it all. Thank you for your generosity in bringing us along as you step through it.
Yes! This is so good. I have my own trauma, none of it took away my humanity or inability to see when something is just revenge disguised as policy. There is so much pain in this world, adding to it will never reduce it.
I love your korero about trauma having a very real impact on a person’s life but them still having to take responsibility for their actions. Yes! I love reading how connection - facing a real person and seeing the impact of your actions in the flesh - gives a huge opportunity for healing and/or learning. For both parties. I like how you acknowledge that trauma doesn’t have a hierarchy - suffering affects us all in different ways. I appreciate your sharp perception of the system. I liked this whole korero! I’m also so sorry about all of the crimes committed against you. Just wanted to let you know I enjoy reading your newsletter. 😊
Thank you so much, e hoa. I appreciate the thoughtful comment, especially from another writer. 🙂
Hell's bells, Anna - what a piece of writing. Like you I understand the need to work through my instinctive unease about, and rejection of, this fatuous boot camp policy. I'm not sure I ever quite get there in response to the social media Outraged of Oamaru types, or to the politicians who should bloody well know better than to pucker up and dog whistle for all they are worth. Yet you do get there, with a level of heart and head engagement that I marvel at and so appreciate. You're right about the wairua being at the centre of it all. Thank you for your generosity in bringing us along as you step through it.
Yes! This is so good. I have my own trauma, none of it took away my humanity or inability to see when something is just revenge disguised as policy. There is so much pain in this world, adding to it will never reduce it.