What has helped you heal from emotional trauma?

[CosmicWonder]

Personal growth is such a key one… without the growth you keep in the same patterns

[Redchic12]

For me it was books that have helped the most (besides meds/therapy for few weeks in early stage.

I mostly read about the behaviour of people ie why some people act one way and why some another way. I wanted to explore human nature, including my own. I tried to learn why these people that were giving me hell at the time, did to me what they did and about the way I reacted to them and to others as well. I read hundreds of books on destructive emotions, narcissistic behaviour, basic psychology and self development. All of them were beneficial.

I was so naive and too trusting and that was my downfall. But not anymore.

When I was going thru the worst of it all, I was given a book by the Dalai Lama, can’t remember the title, and lucky enough that gave me the ability to not be bitter about the four years I endured and helped me come out of the whole thing fairly balance but of course still hurting. It takes awhile for the hurt to leave. But it did in the end.

So yes, I have to say books helped enormously cos they give you the capability to See what is REALLY underneath it all.

[Enchanted_DreamFaerie]

Right now I'm personally going through this, for a very long time I had lots of trauma that I was bottling up and was fighting on my own battle with myself pretty much. I hated who I was as a person due to everything I've been through. I ended up finding a good therapist and working with her through everything. It may not work for everyone else, but for me it works and it has helped me. Before I didn't think I needed therapy and could just do this on my own, until I knew I needed help. I felt so weak asking for help, and thought poorly about myself. I'm glad I ended up admitting to myself I needed help, and I'm going through a healing process right now.

I still have bad days and cry a lot, but I still manage to stay strong and I'm growing to learn myself and becoming a much happier and healthier person. I also realize I'm attracting good people in my life too.

[eezi-ulgen]

First was the internal acceptance that I was carrying them.(trauma's)
I found my way into an inipi = purification sweat lodge.
Which is also to say the inipi is Mother Earths womb.
So I die and get reborn every time WE enter and reemerge.
With Mothers Loving kindness she still allows me to decide if
I want to pick that trauma up again.
Though it doesn't seem that useful anymore to drag the extra load around.
Then from inipi to all sorts of healing rituals/ceremonies and remedies.
Many years of vision questing,seeking visions from Creator and Spirit helpers, which is another little death and rebirth
and puts one on their Spiritual path for Life.
Then always staying as close to Mother Earth's nurturing ways and seeking healing from the Higher Beings and guides.
Finding fellowship with other people and helping each other through our traumas.
The traumas were always Blessings in disguise.
I have been Blessed to have traveled down healing paths with others.
Though for my biggest hurdle of trauma, my Sister returned from the other side to help me through that one.
Thanks Sis.

[Native spirit]

That is so nice to read. I was visualising myself going through that with you


Namaste

[thecatsmeow]

Hi! I'm still on my healing journey. It began with counselling therapy in the 90's for anxiety and depression and then I began to recover memories of abuse from my childhood and there was no help for that at the time unless I paid for it and I was broke so I couldn't. I had PTSD for years. It really snowballed in 2013 when I had a "psychotic episode" and wound up in hospital. I'm now using and seeking alternative therapies like QHHT, SCHH and Shamanism.

[energy4ever]

You have to separate yourself from the then and the now and make your own now so it can not happen again. That is only one part of the healing, but for me it worked. I made sure I was never again in that type of vulnerable position for someone else to take advantage of me. When processing something you need to be in a safe environment. Those in treatment that are still in a traumatic situation, less or more, or when trauma can enter the scene again has it twice as hard.

[innerlight]

Honesty with yourself, and a willingness to want to heal. And the realization that one can heal. That one, is important. Not many believe they can heal themselves, or truly be free of an event or experience. And so they cannot fully heal the wound. For others, they have not gone deep enough, and only work at a topical layer dealing with the shades that have arisen from the wound. Sometimes the wounds are carried with us, from times long before us, and this pattern we experienced is still the same one playing out.

The next step, is letting go of expectations of the journey of healing. We may think we need to do this, or let go of that, and not realize there is another step or piece that was connected to it. When we start to be honest, and explore ourselves, our feelings, we can begin to see a much larger piece of the puzzle. However, sometimes that journey may need the help of another as the trauma can be hard to work through alone.

From there there are so many tools that are available to us in this age to really help us have deeper levels of healing than we ever had before. So much forbidden knowledge is being given more freely to us and it has allowed us to clear through things we would not have been able to do so before.

And lastly there is no right or wrong way. It's what works best for you, and helps you connect to the things that make sense to you. Whether it's energy healing, working with a crystal, hypnosis, or past life healing, shamanism, to so much more.

[JustBe]

In my twenties i had a long term relationship ending, I sourced every book on healing, self help and personal growth and buried myself in them. Mid thirties I did a reiki course which led me to let go of lots. I went onto practitioner level and continued to heal myself through others and life itself. I also did kinesiology, touch for health and it shifted tons. I also did two years of mind reprogramming to reset my old patterns to forge new awareness. In my forties I did meditation, colour therapy, journeyed with many helpful reflections through many teachers. Finally in my late forties I had a major spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul that brought me closer to the core of myself to let go of my greatest fear. ‘Death’ ..

In 2012 I went to NY where I had a very heavy rebirth. I Found myself in places that connected me to past trauma from past lives. Each person in NY was exactly as I needed to let go of deeper suffering. From there I climbed back up to build deeper grounded balance, feel my way through everything without that core fear in place.

Here ‘I am’

[dream jo]

I think going on websites like this one 100 support Groupon but I know and I was in my 20s as on one is training courses but I hate it
But I can't get past I kept getting threatened with emotional blackmail buy a man in his late 50s early 60s because I would not go out of him you're too old for me but it kept threatening me and I've asked me threatening to do things to himself and reply people and it be my fault
Plus people but clinic him to leave me alone because I'll be the one get sent to jail we may is going to get it to you not him but all I got was it's my fault because I don't fancy him even on like a complete snake in a sleaze
But it always threaten me in front of people and he made sure he would have Witnesses if it gone through last night
But I went every time is so me if letting me with emotional blackmail in the end I was scared to get involved people because of him
But no I'm slowly starting to trust again after 20-years but I am asking my guardian angels to help me
And my Guides with the guardian angels to help me that's good texting doing but I'm not I'll get there in the end
Plus I've got my church to help me as well because of your amount shirt went through similar things as me so emotional blackmail is I hate it so much
Because emotional blackmail is one of my pet hates
But speaking to a few friends this year as help me open up about it which I've had bottled up for years I did
But if I look back now now I should have put TN got a restraining order on a person but a time I was young and naive