Healing From Childhood Trauma with Koshin Paley Ellison

Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice.

Today, New York Zen Center’s methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. Koshin is a world renowned thought leader in contemplative care. He is the author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019) and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, Tricycle among other publications. 

For more information, please visit these links:

• Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zencare/
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Koshin-Paley-Ellison/e/B019HTQZVM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/koshinpaleyellison/
• Website: https://zencare.org/

HIGHLIGHTS

03:02 - From poetry to social worker 

09:30 - Helping people through Zen Care

12:43 - Surviving childhood in a family with epigenetic trauma

18: 30 - Finding inspiration from Karate Kid and Star Wars

21:43 - Learn to be still in your pain 

28:32 - Expect discomfort while undergoing therapy 

37:51 - Coping with trauma by remaining open to working on it 

46:45 - The importance of having spiritual friends 

50:11 - Work on yourself so that you can help others

57:09 - Get in touch with Koshin

QUOTES

14:06 - Koshin: Where immense suffering, and where people are forced to leave or forcibly removed from their country or place, there's a lot of epigenetic trauma. Nobody knew how to talk about it.

21:57 - Koshin: Until you learn to be still in your pain, you will never be free. 

33:49 - Koya: We feel spirit, God, the divine, through other people and even if we don't remember their name or how they look, you remember how they made you feel and I think that is the oneness, that is the spirit. 

36:20 - Koshin: "Even when things feel excruciating, or that moments of heartbreak, you can really feel the excruciating feeling or the heartbreak, and just feel the wrench of life. To me that's also  what allows you to feel the amazing quality of life."

48: 37 - Koshin: "Once we do all of that work, we can go out and be, as we call it, awake at the bedside. So then you can actually show up for people. If we're not doing our work, it's really hard 'cause then we go out and want to be a savior for other people because we want to be saved."

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