Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Vision Loss to Global Healing Journey: My Story #shorts

1 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts the sudden loss of vision in the left eye, diagnosed as a chronic form of central serous retinopathy that threatens total blindness. The prognosis prompts drastic life changes: the speaker leaves a romantic relationship and a job to embark on a global search for healing, traveling as far as Indonesia to study with spiritual teachers who emphasize repairing familial bonds. The narrative then shifts to deep‑seated family trauma, describing an inherited sense of brokenness rooted in the mother’s ambivalence toward the pregnancy, including in‑utero attempts to terminate it. The speaker returns to Pittsburgh to confront this trauma, asking the mother to hold them in an effort to understand bodily sensations, but the attempt triggers a panic response. The story weaves together medical crisis, existential decision‑making, cross‑cultural healing practices, and the struggle to mend a fractured attachment with the mother.

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I lost the vision in my left eye. All I could see when I would look through my left eye was a gray dot. I couldn't see faces. I couldn't see anything. And I go to the doctors and they say, you have a chronic form of central serous retinopathy that doesn't go away and we can't cure it. We think you're going to lose the vision in both eyes. I left my relationship, left my job, and I go on this search that literally takes me halfway around the globe as far as Indonesia to study with these very wise teachers who teach me these fundamental principles, one of which was the importance of healing my relationship with my parents. So I had this broken relationship with my mom and dad. I don't know how I'm going to heal it because before I could even look at that, I have to heal what stands in the way, which is inherited family trauma. I'd inherited this feeling of being broken from my mother's love, which was true. I have a massive break in the attachment. She didn't want to keep the pregnancy and for the whole 9 months did her best to dislodge the pregnancy. So there's all this in utero trauma of doing everything possible to lose the pregnancy. I had to heal the attachment with my mom. I go back to Pittsburgh. I ask her to hold me because I want to learn what's going on in my body. She goes to hold me and I freak out.