Trauma can impact every facet of a person’s life. It affects their sense of well-being, self-esteem, trust in the world, relationships, and ability to function in daily life.
Trauma comes from witnessing too much truth too soon to the degree that the mind is deeply distressed or disturbed.
Healing from trauma is a needed journey for an individual to build resiliency and regain their inner sense of peace.
Stages of a Healing Journey from Trauma
The following are the stages of a healing journey from trauma:
Acknowledge the trauma. Admitting that you’ve gone through a distressing event and it has left you hurt is crucial. You can’t fix a problem until you admit that you have a problem.
Seek support. This helps you feel less alone while also being provided much needed support to help cope with the trauma.
Practice self-care. This involves getting sleep, eating well, exercise, and so on.
Process the trauma. This means allowing yourself to experience your thoughts and emotions and feelings that your awareness notices is related to your trauma. Allow yourself to feel through everything for your body to digest and process the trauma.
Find meaning. By giving your suffering meaning, you are able to empower yourself by developing a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.
Move forward. When the time is right, you will be reborn and your bones with be stronger than before. But don’t attempt to move forward too soon. Just because you are done with the past doesn’t mean it’s done with you. Give yourself all the time you need and be patient with yourself.
14 Tips For Your Healing Journey
Here are tips for your healing journey:
Recognize The Need For Healing – Admitting that you have a problem is always the first step. You can’t do this is you are always distracting yourself from your emotions, thoughts, and inner pain. This can be called “denial” and it’s not a strength—it’s a weaknesses. Vulnerability is strength.
Seek Support – The healing journey is a lonely path, but it doesn’t always have to be. Talk to trusted friends, therapists, or family members.
Practice Self-Care – You need a stable environment without negative and abuse factors in order to practice self-care. This gives your psyche a place to process any pain, both actively and passively. Take the time to take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This involves eating healthy foods, getting fresh air, adequate sleep, meditation, and so on.
Set Realistic Goals – Don’t expect to heal overnight, you can’t rush the process. But set milestones to aim for and take pride in every step you take towards your goals.
Practice Forgiveness – Forgive yourself for your own mistakes, you didn’t know any better anyways and that’s not your fault. You can also try forgiving others who have hurt you. This way you don’t hang onto anger and resentment that arrests your spiritual and emotional development.
Embrace Your Emotions – It’s important that you allows yourself feel all of your emotions so you can digest and process the sadness, anger, frustration, and fear. It’s by acknowledging your emotions and allowing yourself to observe them until they naturally pass, that you process and heal.
Taking Action – Seek help, join a support group, engage in self-care, pursue your goals, consult your inner resources, and keep moving forward while giving yourself the time to pause and process the past so you can resume moving forward.
Connect with your inner self. This means taking time to introspect and reflect on your inner thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. You can explore these deeper parts of yourself via journaling, meditating, etc.
Explore your beliefs and values. By exploring your beliefs and values, you can reevaluate and make the changes necessary to connect to a higher power.
Practice mindfulness. Being present and fully in the moment helps build self-awareness and awareness of the world around you. Breathwork, meditation, and activities like this help cultivate mindfulness.
Find a spiritual practice. By connecting to a higer power through spiritual practices help cultivate an inner sense of peace. It’s up to you to find the practices that best resonate with you.
Seek out a community. Connecting with others is a powerful way to move forward on your spiritual healing journey. Consider communities through spiritual groups, religious institutions, and other online communities.
Embrace gratitude. Gratitude is how you cultivate a sense of abundance and positivity in your life. In fact, make a list of 100 things you feel make life worth living, you may be surprised at what are the things you appreciate about life.
Let go of negativity. Negativity prevents you from connecting with a higher power. This is why you want to practice forgiveness, focus on the positives, and release resentment.
What is A Healing Journey With God?
The healing journey with God is a process of increasing Awareness and Self-Awareness. Because both of these is nearly synonomous with God. And you know your Self by how you relate with the World.
This journey is one of personal growth in terms of emotional, mental, and spiritual strength.
Our connection with our Higher Self and God is where we can find strength and guidance to overcome our life’s present challenges.
When we learn to surrender our worries to God, we allow God to work within our lives.
Here are the steps in a healing journey with God:
Surrender: It is through surrender that we can let of our worries and place our trust in God and indirectly ourselves.
Prayer: When we pray we are in a humble state. In this state, we are most open to solutions to the problems we are addressing to God.
Forgiveness: This involves letting go of bitterness, anger, and resentment that we hold for ourselves and others. By forgiving, we allow ourselves to heal and mend inwardly.
Gratitude: This allows us to see the positive aspects in our lives, while also increasing our sense of abundance.
Service: There are two things your soul wants for you, in this order (1) Your Freedom and (2) Your Service to Others. It is through this service that we are able to spread love and compassion to others.
How Can You Have A Peaceful Healing Journey?
The following are tips to help you cultivate a peaceful healing journey:
Acceptance – Accept that this healing journey is going to take much more time than you’d like. It’s not going to be a straightforward process and there’s no definite timeline. Accept that you will need to be patient.
Practice self-care – This involves getting sleep, eating well, exercise, and so on.
Seek support. This helps you feel less alone while also being provided much needed support to help cope with the trauma.
Practice mindfulness. Being present and fully in the moment helps build self-awareness and awareness of the world around you. Breathwork, meditation, and activities like this help cultivate mindfulness.
Forgiveness: This involves letting go of bitterness, anger, and resentment that we hold for ourselves and others. By forgiving, we allow ourselves to heal and mend inwardly.
Gratitude: This allows us to see the positive aspects in our lives, while also increasing our sense of abundance.
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