Warrior - Demi Lovato

https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/2018/12/now-im-a-warrior/

Reading about her life, listening to the song and reading the youtube commments is very informative. Getting past abuse to a new life is difficult. Trauma or PTSD recovery can take years for soldiers, abused children, adult crime or rape victims. Spiritual people talk about becoming a butterfly. I think the transformation and death must happen in the coccoon. The scars must be healed. We cannot be reactive our whole lives, but learn to live fully. Like the typical broken heart learning to open up again, the traumatized child has a longer and deeper recovery. The sights are set both higher and lower at the same time. The impossibly demonic must be battled, within and without, while the greatest heavenly prize beyond mere human affections must be reached. The worse the trauma the greater the goal. Many have sights set on success in society of some sort or other due to parental pressures in the childhood and peer expecttations. When that is all ripped away due to trauma then social succes never satisfies. Only true deep feelings matter when everything has been numbed and money, grades, accomplishments don' t restore that emptiness. Often we were so young when it happened we don't realize how cynical and hardened we really are. Decades of spiritual work begin to pry us open. Enlightenment is a cool idea but I think most of those who are most determined on the spiritual path simply want the peace of mind of the abverage person by turning back the clock and healing the trauma. I believe this is entirely possible.