{"id":2554,"date":"2012-04-17T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:48:56","slug":"champion-the-underdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Champion the Underdog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering why posts on activism, and work like Elisabet Sahtouris\u2019 is important to someone suffering from PTSD.\u00a0 Kathy Weingarten<\/a> wrote that children raised in a \u201cgood enough\u201d environment grow up with three assumptions:\u00a0 the Universe is Benevolent, Life is Meaningful, the Self is Worthy.\u00a0 Trauma breaks this basic safety, suddenly the Universe is Malevolent, Life is Meaningless, the Self is Not Worthy.\u00a0 For me, that basic safety was destroyed early.\u00a0 I grew up in a world I couldn\u2019t trust \u2014 except for school \u2014 so I never bought the conventional worldview: that America is the land of opportunity, that if you work hard you can make it to the top, that if you\u2019re poor it means you\u2019re lazy.\u00a0 I was always a champion of the underdog.\u00a0 I experienced myself as an \u201cunderdog\u201d, as a cripple, as an inadequate person, even though I was one of the brightest in the class.\u00a0 The only positive feedback I got was from my teachers in the form of grades.\u00a0 So I developed my intellect, not my emotions \u2014 which tended to be painful and seemed radically out of control \u2014 and not my creative talent, which I didn\u2019t know I had.\u00a0 My sense of oppression (\u201cDon\u2019t think you\u2019re so great\u201d) and exploitation (\u201cYou can take care of the kids while we\u2019re gone\u201d) made me sympathize with the poor and downtrodden where ever they were.\u00a0 I had gained a healthy respect for \u201cprimitive\u201d people after I saw the dolmen under Knocknarae and explored the astronomical alignments of Stonehenge.\u00a0 Finally, working with Somatic Experiencing changed my experience of my own body from seeing it as troublesome and sabotaging things I wanted to do, to experiencing it as a source of healing and wisdom.\u00a0 If my body\u2019s own wisdom, when I allowed it to speak, was far wiser than my neocortex, then surely the wisdom of Nature, and of the indigenous people, is far wiser than that of the scientists in their laboratories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering why posts on activism, and work like Elisabet Sahtouris\u2019 is important to someone suffering from PTSD.\u00a0 Kathy Weingarten wrote that children raised in a \u201cgood enough\u201d environment grow up with three assumptions:\u00a0 the Universe is Benevolent, Life … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-present-day","category-somatic-experiencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}