Tap into Radical Trust
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By Elizabeth Marglin
When I watch Cynthia James’ “Your Extraordinary Essence” on GaiamTV.com, I am reminded over and over of Viktor Frankl’s prescient quote, “What is to give light must endure burning.” James has put her time in the fire, but she has come out alight and aglow with inspiration. Each of us endures our “burning” differently. While on the outside, James seemed to be living the dream—a respected Hollywood actress (the original Lexie on Days of Our Lives), an attentive husband, a house in Malibu, a lovely family—inside, James was struggling with a legacy of emotional trauma that had shattered her self-worth.
But eventually the wake-up call came. For James, it began by recognizing a pattern in herself of shutting down in her relationships as soon as they got intimate. By sniffing out that pattern, and having the courage to dive deeper into its meaning, James was finally able come face to face with her abusive childhood. In confronting her memories of violence and abuse, she realized why her current relationships kept playing out a similar theme. “We keep creating the same fields of resonance—we seek out what’s familiar,” James says.
