In my life I have experienced many traumatic events. So much so I decided I had to view my life path as a ‘healing’ path just so I could get my mind around what I was experiencing and give it a softer space to land in my soul. I have had to let go and embrace a new life and a new me. It’s been confusing, profound and life altering.
On the path to healing from severe trauma there may be many roadblocks encountered;
~Finding the right help
~Knowing what help you need
~Knowing how to pace yourself and listening to what is truly needed
~Overcoming the challenges around people’s judgements of the trauma
~Accepting and working through the way the trauma has impacted one’s life, one’s sense of self and one’s circumstances. As well as the way it has impacted relationship dynamics
~Finding reasonable ways to heal as well as leaning into faith
~Trusting that other people’s opinions around the trauma are just that; their opinions and not always an absolute truth or fact. Remaining in truth is very important particularly for mental and emotional health and healing
~Having self compassion when the bad days and moments come and understanding life is cyclical, seasonal and ebbs and flows. Bad times never last forever although some days it can feel neverending.
~Recognising profound trauma has a profound impact on someone. Therefore giving oneself the adequate time to heal which is unique to every person is crucial.
As a survivor the lived experiences I have had give me a depth of understanding that can translate to helping others at times. In saying that; who I am as a person is much broader then the trauma I have had to and am still working through. We are all multifaceted humans. I can only focus so much on trauma before I feel the heaviness return and thus I am one person of many. Simply sharing some of my story is a lamppost as they say for someone who needs to read it at this appointed moment in time. Trauma was never who I am; it is what I have had to overcome and I take it as part of my path now.
Acceptance allows me to let go. Of wanting things to have been different and simply sit in the space of truth. I have moved forward alot, but some things remain. It is what it is. I am happy with the person I am today.
If you are finding life has been traumatising. You don’t always need a million solutions but taking steps when you can to help the situation is often much better than not facing the reality of it.
Life can cut deep, but it is also a beautiful life, especially when we walk through it with God 🙂