Healing and Recovery from Trauma, The Good Work
Peace and Welcome!
My name is Nela and I am here to share not only my personal experience but the tools of healing from trauma.
It’s great that therapy has become less taboo in our society and I believe therapy is a good beginning on the road to healing (for many people). However, people have to realize that clinical therapy only represents about 25% of the healing process. Therapy is a beginning, an opening. A clinical professional has a trained ear and can help us to pinpoint damaging beliefs and/or give relevant diagnosis. This is important and has its place. However, one may sit with a therapist for just 2 hours a month. If you have worked with a therapist, you know that it can take time to open up and trust this other human to whom you are telling your story. Even after we hear a diagnosis, we might think, ‘great, now I know what’s wrong with me.’ But knowledge and understanding of our condition DOES NOT CHANGE US. In many spaces over the internet, people are DESCRIBING emotional and relationship issues, but resolving our issues is entirely different. We must have the tools of transformation.
The Good Work
So, I wish to present here and on my You Tube channel what we shall call, The Good Work. Made up of an array of healing modalities, The Good Work is what we have the power to do on behalf of our own healing process.
The process of healing and recovering from childhood trauma, spiritual abuse, or any other kind of painful event has been a topic of passionate personal study for me since I experienced an emotional breakdown in 2017.
- Breathwork: Recently, I started taking an African dance class, which is a very exhilarating full body cardio workout. I was surprised to feel that my breathing was very steady during the whole workout while other ladies were out of breath. But breathwork is for more than a physical benefit. It calms the nervous system and nurtures an emotion that trauma survivors savor: the feeling of safety.
- Meditation; ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ When recovering from traumas we want to begin to choose better responses to the world around us. Instead of ‘being triggered’ or ‘snapping’ in a stressful situation, stillness helps us regulate our responses and develop greater emotional stability.
- Sacred Reading and Prayer; Study of the Bible or other writings that speak to the needs of the spirit give us hope and help us to see beyond what is in front of us.
- Journaling; We begin to observe our own thoughts, feelings, reactions, and behaviors not to judge ourselves, but to recognize areas where we can heal and grow.
- Declarations are statements we make with authority and clarity. These faith-filled statements empower us to live according to God’s will, confronting life’s challenges with the whole armor of His truth. When you declare you are aligning your words with God’s Word, and that alignment brings about transformation.
- ‘Walk in Truth‘: Walk in that truth, move in that truth, whether it be by actual walking, dance or exercise. Have you ever listened to music during a cardio workout and hours later still had that song in your head? This is the affect we are creating when we move in our declarations.
- High-minded Talk; using our words to regulate our emotions is a skill that aids in our healing. For ‘… what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart…’ So, as we cleanse our hearts of the old hurts, we change our words to maintain our new emotional state.
Heal Yourself & Your Household
When you understand each modality in the ‘toolbox’, you can begin to write your own prescription for yourself and your household to heal what is emotionally or spiritually ailing you. We have to realize that the emotions are in our bodies and this Good Work is mostly internal. It may seem unimportant but I assure you each one of these modalities IS significant and all of them firing at once has saved me from the misery of low self-esteem, which led to me joining an extreme religion.
Emotional and spiritual healing can be an entire journey. Remember, you are not just healing for you, you are healing for everyone and everything connected to you. All your relationships will transform for the better when you feel better from the inside out. I hope this information will serve you at the highest level.
Nela
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