I believe that the world we’re living in is increasingly disconnected. More and more, we’re carrying out our lives in virtual spaces, interacting via screens. In our personal lives, we’re more likely than in previous generations to discard relationships when things go wrong rather than seek to fix them. This goes for friendships, romantic relationships, as well as relationships in the immediate family – siblings, parents and children.
This sense of disconnect also happens within our own individual lives. Many of us believe that we can erase our past and restart our lives in much the same way as reprogramming a computer. We move to a new workplace, a new town, a new country, or enter into a new marriage in the belief that we can reinvent ourselves and cast off yesterday’s heartbreaks and regrets without ever processing or working them through.
In this video I explore what really happens when we try to cut off parts of our history. I look at how unprocessed experiences and feelings continue to exist as fragmented splinters in our lives, creating a general sense of disconnection within ourselves.
The video looks at the importance of integrated, cohesive life stories for our own sense of well-being, and the role that these stories play in overcoming trauma.
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Higher Than Me 