ADULTHOOD IS A S#!%SHOW
Others ways do remove trauma stored in the body (read How To Release Trauma From The Body 1). Providing you with mental stability, a regulated nervous system and an overall healthier life. The body is a temple, carrying you through this life as best it can. Treat it with respect and allow yourself freedom. Speak up, find people who make you feel safe, don’t minimize your feelings to please others. Life’s too short for painful living. Via: Printed_Tree
Trauma is stored in your body. When I first got into meditation, which focuses on the breath and connecting to the soul, I’d find myself in tears from repressed memories. Literally out of nowhere, things I’d forgotten surfaced to be removed from the energetic body (points 1 and 3). Yoga does the same thing, falling under point number 4. Completely releasing tension when done regularly. Areas like the hips, shoulders, lower back and neck carry a lot of emotional weight. Definitely worth it. Via: Printed_Tree
Trauma and healing rewires the brain. Evaluating where you are mentally and emotionally is critical to self-care, which is health care. As someone diagnosed with PTSD due to extensive abuse, I thought I’d be stuck in the eye of the storm for the rest of my life. Taking baby steps everyday has significantly decreased my tiggers and improved my overall well-being. Continuously acknowledging my truth, that I wasn’t better, meditation, exercise, especially yoga, journaling, breath work, walks in nature, ground me, relaxing my nervous system. Finding the right therapist, a black woman like myself, who aligned with my spiritual beliefs was a game changer.
Please remember you’re not damaged, you’re someone responding to what’s happened or happening to you. Oftentimes trauma is coupled with shame, not your burden to bear. You’re the victim, give yourself grace. Via: Dr.GillianOSheaBrown
Health care includes taking care for your mind, energetic body, and soul. The small things really make a big difference, reading, doing yoga, therapy once a week. I know there’s a stigma around therapy, telling someone your business, or thinking it makes you a loon, weak, but there shouldn’t be. Checking in with a professional, working on your issues, releasing trauma, it makes you a better person, an evolved one. Find someone that suits you (not every therapist is a good one). Make healing a priority. Which of these activities can you add to enhance your life? Via: DrLaurenFogelMersy
Childhood is a precious time, one that can cause a lot of damage if your parents aren’t careful, compassionate, or healthy people. Growing up was made easier for me, because all my schoolmates and friends for the most part were fucked up. Clinging to one another. Feeling that void inside together isn’t enough though, that’s what I learned. We weren’t healing, we were numbing, salving ourselves with drug and alcohol abuse. Outbursts of tears and rage. Running from repressed and suppressed emotions, memories.
Once upon a time I was all the things stated in this picture. I decided to heal, commit to spirituality. Change my lifestyle, even if it meant losing people. As I was losing them I found myself. We weren’t on the same wavelength anymore. They were still in their pain, I was rising above it. All of it was worth it.
If I can do it, drag myself up from the dregs of drugs, depression, despair, etc…you can too. It won’t be easy, but you’ll feel better, be better, do better. Try it. You deserved happiness. Is childhood trauma showing up in your adult life? Via: Janeel Monae
Yoga, I’d add yoga to this list if appropriate of course. After any workout my mood is lifted. Meditation also helps. Bad moods come and go, so let them go by at least trying the items on this list, it’s better than wallowing in your shit. How do you cope with bad moods?
First admit that you are unhappy.
Then admit why.
Then understand you need to let go.
Allow yourself a moment.
Breathe in the moment deeply.
Then the healing will begin.
Via: Dream To Be Muse & Nikita Gill (poet)
Cannot stress this enough; we can only make change when we realize our divinity and work together. Society calls you ugly, but you choose to listen. Never compete for a boy, because men won’t make you compete. Have some self-respect, you are the closest thing to the creator, know your worth. Do you connect with other women, or cut them down? I can’t tally how many girls have tried to cut me down, because they don’t love themselves. Via: Ethereal Healing
Is healing your trauma.
Unbreak your own heart.
Via Poetry & Writers
What do you need to heal (childhood trauma, relationships, low self worth)? Are you aware? Are you actively trying? Why or why not? Healing is the most important thing you can do for yourself. Release that pain, you are deserving.