Doing the deep and profound work of healing your trauma can be overwhelming. It can feel hard to know where to start or where to turn when your fundamental sense of safety has been compromised. The path to healing trauma is many things - it is brave, hard, messy, painful, exhausting and confusing. It is also immensely rewarding and incredibly fruitful.
Experiencing trauma and living with that trauma - whether the trauma was a particular event, was ongoing or if it is still going on, often leaves you feeling disconnected from yourself physically and emotionally. It feels isolating but can also make social interaction challenging. The pervasive sense of fear and the lack of safety make it very difficult to engage and maintain healthy relationships. It becomes difficult to trust yourself and it is often difficult to trust others.
Healing trauma requires a great deal of self-compassion, care and gentleness. When you acknowledge and work to understand your trauma you allow yourself the opportunity to create new neural pathways - your brain actually changes. You create new opportunities for yourself and the impact ripples through every area of your life. It is a dedication you make to yourself, to reclaiming your vital life force, to regaining your power and your equilibrium.
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