A Guide for Healing and Claiming What's Yours
Self-help, personal development, psychology, spirituality, trauma
healing
Date Published: August 5, 2024
Everything you want: all the riches of the world, the depth, beauty, the
fun.
Everything you want is in the underworld of your psyche.
This is where our capacity to experience lives.
Yet, most of us barely know what is happening in our own mind and are at
least a little terrified of who we might really be.
Just as our wishes and dreams live in the underworld of our psyche, so do
our worst fears, the things we desperately want to run from. This is the
treasure.
Our traumas, patterns, addictions, seedy desires, and repressed memories
once welcomed and transformed by the light of our consciousness give us our
greatest power, creativity, and magnetism.
This is your guidebook to your underworld that you might claim everything
that you are.
INTERVIEW
Introduce yourself and tell me about what you do.
My name is Lillian Moore, I've been studying the healing arts since I was a child and working with Trauma for the last 20 years. 10 years ago I co-founded a school teaching people how to work with their own emotions. We train practitioners
Tell me more about your journey as an author, including the writing processes.
I wrote "Treasure Hunting in the Underworld" right after my stepmom (primary parent, the woman who raised me) died last year. A few weeks after she passed, I was given a huge gift: three weeks to myself, with no kids, no work, and very few interactions. I spent my days in the river below our home in Colombia and my evenings by the fire with music.
Grief is an incredibly generous teacher. The loss connects us with the eternal by forcing us to face the temporary. The pain pulls our focus and demands our attention. The love that can be taken for granted when it’s a phone call away suddenly becomes the single most important thing.
For me, grief was an invitation to come home to myself. It was time to reorganize the home of that loss, pain, and love. I needed to clean out my underworld so I could move with grace through the portal of grief.
To do this cleaning, I systematically remembered what I know about healing and restoring power. Even after 19 years of teaching these techniques, I would still forget to use them. As I say in the book, simple things are both easy to remember and easy to forget.
This book was like wrapping up the most important principles for healing that I know into a box, tying the bow on it, and giving it to myself. Since writing it, I haven’t forgotten to use these powerful techniques for my benefit. When something bothers me, a pattern emerges, or I notice a strange reaction to something in my life, I deal with it by treasure hunting.
Tell me about your Book
Treasure Hunting in the Underworld gives the gift of facing ourselves and our lives unconditionally from a seat of power. It helps us become richer through loss, stronger through collapse, and more loving through heartbreak. As we do this process, we stop experiencing the same losses, collapses, and heartbreaks again and again, and our lives can move forward more creatively.
This book is a guidebook that shows you where healing is needed and how to approach any wound or pattern of negativity gently and systematically. More important than that, this book teaches and instills a practice of self-compassion and acceptance. Through the work that this book offers you can build a relationship with yourself based in deep respect and trust, learning to hold yourself in high regard.
While the work outlined in Treasure Hunting in the Underworld is inner work, the reflection of this work can be seen in the reader's life. When we know ourselves and are friends with ourselves the inner saboteurs become allies and our work lives, finances, and relationships all improve. You can bring your best to life and life will meet you there.
Any message for our readers
Everything is healable, there is nothing in you so scary or dark or painful that it can’t be accepted, loved, and ultimately turned into power.
Story
Everything that we experience is a product of our own inner world. It is where we create our lives from and it is the only lense through which we can perceive the world around us. There is no greater power for creating a beautiful life experience than having power in your inner world. But, for most of us our inner world is like a dreamscape that barely makes sense to us. We have fragmented and opposing feeling and beliefs born out of trauma and living in a world that provides us so much information and emotional stimulation but very few tools to understand or integrate. The result is that we walk around like a chorus of different voices each creating and perceiving according to one fragment of information without the wisdom and context of the whole of who we are.
The results that we get in our lives may feel mysterious, random, or even like tragedies echoing from our childhood, only because we don't know how we are creating what we are creating.
This book is a guidebook to your own innerworld and a tool kit for integrating all of the information of your life into a cohesive and powerful sense of self. The method of integration is radical honesty and radical self acceptance. The book teaches you to open yourself up like a map and visit the places in your being with stored energy and power. It teaches you how to systematically and gently transform pockets of pain or confusion into compassion, wisdom and depth. The result is the capacity to be what you want and have the life that you want using the raw materials of experience that your life has provided you.
About the Author
Lillian is a co-founder of Mindlight and the Mindlight Institute, which has
trained thousands of people to integrate trauma. She has been studying and
practicing the healing arts since she was a child. She was a volunteer for
the Stress Project that helped veterans heal from PTSD, has led trainings
for Google Vitality Labs and SXSW.
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