Tag: trauma

Written by Father Don Farnan

REM–EMDR

Fundraising for local charities and dancing with stars years ago, I was paired with professionals to move and groove to R.E.M.’s hit song Losing My Religion.  Though the southern band explained the song’s title as comparative to losing grip of one’s situation, like when Jesus lost His temperament with the Pharisees or drove moneychangers from […]

Written by Father Don Farnan

It Must Be This Way

My sixty-five-year-old body increasingly reminds me of my age.  For the past several months I limped around because my left side, from hip to ankle, has been hurting and dragging.  For the first time in my life, walking and climbing stairs was painful.  In retrospect and to my detriment, I probably never gave my body […]