Can I help you make a decision?

I want to show you why Trauma & Abuse: The Unshaming Way will benefit you, your life, and all those around you.

This program will transform the way you feel about and respond to your personal story forever. Here’s how:

Many of you have sent in questions about this program, so I wanted to take a moment to answer them here:

Why is it important to go through your abuse story?

If you don’t heal your abuse story and learn to view it with unshaming eyes, it can become your life story. You will continue to repeat the same themes and hurts of past abuse in your life, career, relationships, internal criticism, etc.

When we are traumatized, parts of ourselves get split off, relegated to the shadow.

We lose access to ourselves - our power, our sensitivity, our self-trust, our protective instincts, our ability to distinguish harmful people/situations from safer ones.

Your abuse story is the story that lives in your mind, body, and spirit surrounding the trauma you’ve experienced.

For many people, this story lives UNCONSCIOUSLY inside of them - running their life without them even realizing it.

Please be careful to not re-traumatize yourself when working on your trauma.

Why would that happen?

Let’s think of it this way.

Many people come to me saying, “David, I’m so drawn to what you’ve said about Trauma & Abuse: The Unshaming Way. I feel called to this work. But I’m afraid that…”

And they share very valid reasons why they’re not sure if this is the right program for them to do right now.

So today, I want to walk you through some of the most common concerns I hear to help you decide if Trauma & Abuse: The Unshaming Way is right for you.

Your feelings and story need to be witnessed.

Whenever a person says their abuse was "not that bad" or "as bad as someone else's," I know their story and feelings have not been fully witnessed.

There are many, many examples of abuse beyond the obvious things.

Yes - being physically or sexually violated are horrific, unjust, and fucked up. No person deserves to go through that.

But abuse also includes more subtle and insidious violence:

If you’ve been criticized or neglected…

I want to share a story from one of my greatest mentors, the poet and activist Maya Angelou.

Maya was raped at 8 years old. She was frightened to name the person who did it, because she thought her relatives would hurt him.

A few days after she told her relatives, the man who raped her was found dead.

Maya realized in that moment how powerful her voice was. That it could be deadly.

For the next five and a half years, she didn’t utter a single word.