Hello everyone. If you are into corny action-comedy movies, then you know the person whose picture adorns the cover image for this post. None other than Mexican-American actor, Danny Trejo, the star of the "Machete" series.
Back in the day, I had read that Trejo was a former gang-banger, former drug addict and was formerly incarcerated. However, I never heard his story until recently. He has written a book detailing some of his highlighted experiences but shares how, after giving the manuscript to one of his ex-wives to read, she encouraged him to look deeper and explore the childhood experiences that shaped him into who he had become as a young man.
With sincerity, humility and transparency, he has done so and, as he tells it, the revelations helped him better understand himself and opened a new dimension of his nature and identity to his family as well.
Below is a link to him sharing the details with Tom Power, a Canadian journalist. You can read the article but I would urge you to listen to the 23-minute audio of their conversation. Hearing Trejo tell his personal story with his signature gravelly voice is the best way to immerse yourself in his outline of his ACEs as he connects the dots of his life.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/thu...-and-death-1.6100792
Trejo is now 77. Sometimes, the deep introspection needed to unearth our childhood trauma that we may have normalised comes after life-defining events or when someone we trust urges us to look beneath the surface and explore the core reasons for our behaviour and attitudes.
We all need that someone with whom we can be open and honest and who can support us in such a personal exploration. May we "find" them sooner than later.
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