Like a splinter

Like removing a splinter…Staind pulls the trauma out of me and it’s soothing. 

Every life trauma leaves a behind a trace…engraved into the subconscious.  Sometimes our senses pick up on a sight, sound, smell, taste or feeling that brings us back to a previous moment of pain.  

I’ve been obsessed over Staind’s new album.  I swear every song speaks to me in some way.  His voice, and lyrics tap into a part of me that screams ‘I hear your pain…I get you.  You’re not alone in how you feeI’.  

There have been several moments these songs have brought me to tears.  As I listen to the combination of lyrics, pitch, tone and background music I feel so entirely connected.  It’s like with each word he pulls a trauma memory from the depth of my soul and releases it…

As the memory passes through, the pain is relived and the hurt feels incredibly intense….but then it is released and there is a sense of peace.  This peace is soothing.  

Kinda like having a splinter removed.  The pain of digging it out is SO real, but as the foreign body is pulled out, there is a soothing release.