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Healing from our trauma
As individuals we have the responsibility of holding ourselves accountable as to how we respond to traumatic experiences, how we heal, and grow out of trauma.
Healing from trauma is not easy work but it allows us to face our fears headstrong. We will also be able to provide our own needs instead of relying on other people to soothe us when distressed.
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How to alleviate traumatic experiences
Here are some ways to alleviate trauma:
- By facing our past and identifying which events caused us trauma
- Allowing ourselves to feel emotions and not suppressing them
- By showing compassion to ourselves and not be ashamed of what we went through
- Through redis...
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Trauma
Trauma is a distressing experience that affects our mental and physical well-being. It is the unresolved emotional response to a frightening event that occurred.
The concept of trauma was first observed in military contexts, but we can experience trauma anywhere from our c...
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The effects of trauma
Trauma shows up in our body in many different ways. It causes us to think illogically whenever we feel scared.
It may show up as:
- fear
- nightmares
- social isolation
- anxiety and depression.
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Untreated trauma and its negative effects
All individual who has ever dealt with trauma knows that healing can take a lot of time if it eventually happens. Untreated trauma seems to leave scars on our brain, altering the way we perceive new experiences. Furthermore, having dealt with trauma makes us more prone to serious health co...
Awareness - Separation - Redirection
With awareness, we can watch ourselves respond; we are getting out of our own way and allowing ourself to heal. We become an observer of our own healing.
Remember, the steps required to create neuroplastic changes in our brain are:
- awareness
Mindfulness: Transmuting and Transforming our Fears
We can indeed transform and transmute the feeling of fear within us. The reason we fear being ourselves most of the times it is because we live our lives based on other people’s expectation of us. Our fears have made us to rob ourselves of the freedom to make the right choices in life and so beca...
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