Bearing Witness — What It Means to Be Seen, to See Others, and to See Yourself
This week in Stable Roots, Kim Carter writes about witnessing — what it truly means to be present for someone, and how our instinct to fix things often gets in the way.
After a surprise visit from two of the most important people in her life, Kim found herself thinking about the kitchen table, a hidden drawer full of medicine, and what it looks like when someone actually stays in the field of hard things with you instead of trying to move you through them.
In this episode:
→ Why our instinct to help is often really our instinct to make our own discomfort stop
→ The Old English roots of the word "witness" — and why it was originally about knowing, not watching
→ What horses, elephants, and mares can teach us about co-regulation and presence
→ The difference between people who love the version of you that's winning and those who can love the version of you that's simply trying
→ How to become a witness to your own life while you're still living it
There are witnesses to the medicine. This episode is one of them.
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