Trauma lives on

I know from experience, both my own & working with clients over the years, that our unhealed traumas continue to live within us, long after the events have passed.

Traumas of our past live and breathe within our nervous systems because of the fear & shame we’ve attached to them.

Trauma isn’t just a physical experience, but also a mental, emotional, energetic & psychic one as well.

We’ve even given meaning to our traumas, that we maintain & perpetuate. We’ve determined things like:

“I should have known better, I’m an idiot for allowing such a thing to happen.”

“I can’t believe I didn’t say something.”

"I’m smarter than that, what’s wrong with me that I did that?”

Attaching this significance unknowingly allows unhealed trauma to continue to influence our lives. Along with fear and shame, this causes us to behave in repetitive dysfunctional patterns with our decisions & behaviors.

In order to fully heal trauma, it is then necessary to address all these interrelated factors. 

Remember, time doesn’t heal all wounds, it just reveals them. Actually taking the time to face them and do something about them is how we heal.