Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. ― Mary Oliver

External and internalized denial of thoughts, feelings and expression cuts away at the core – the source – of who a person is – their Authentic Self.  Soul cuts happen when authentic, core thoughts, feelings and expressions are deemed unacceptable or are denied, conveyed through statements such as: you shouldn’t or you don’t (think, feel, or express) as you do….