Trauma is a paradox of complexity that holds wisdom, depth, and meaning.
Trauma injures our ability to embody our fullest potential. Especially during these unprecedented times, the imbalances of our psycho-emotional-spiritual health are becoming more evident; a pandemic of disconnection from our essential being.
Trauma is commonly associated with war, natural disasters, violence, and tragic events. However, it is also more nuanced and more commonplace.
Trauma is an undigested experience that was too much, too quick, or too soon for the systems of the body and mind to handle at the moment.
For example, encounters that evoke threat and overwhelm us as children can produce distortions in the nervous system. As a result, stuck energy and emotions are compressed in the body that keeps the mind looping in negative thoughts, beliefs, and actions into adulthood; both subconsciously and consciously.
Trauma causes shame, victimization, addictive behaviors, low energy, identity distortions, denial, loneliness, and isolation. Tied with painful emotions and uncomfortable bodily sensations,trauma creates the sense of having no control over your life.
Although trauma can impair our ingenuity and purpose, it does not define who we are. There is profound potential to access if we are willing to look deep within.
When we choose to do the inner work to heal our trauma, we transform pain into life force, opening the pathways for more vitality, connection, and aliveness.
By learning to recognize the narratives that limit our capacity to connect with ourselves and with others, we can begin to build more internal resources to navigate this experience. This supports the ability to access more embodied awareness. As a result, we develop the capacity to participate more fully in our lives, with love and compassion for ourselves.
The healing journey can test our limits at times. Nonetheless, the reward will lead to more inner freedom, empowerment, and clarity and help dissolve the echo of trauma being passed on to your loved ones and community.
These are essential times that we are facing. Our individual trauma healing pursuit immeasurably contributes to the collective, the greater web of life, restores the wounds from previous generations, and opens new doors for a more integrated and hopeful future.
For your therapeutic support:
Trauma healing one-on-one sessions and trainingsat Devoted Healing Arts explores trauma from the perspective of our innate wholeness, not as if we’re broken, defective, or in need of fixing. We provide the space for all those aspects we keep in our private world to gently come to the surface with curiosity and the utmost care.
