Overcoming a traumatic event is a wound that takes time to heal, and trauma affects everyone differently. One can suffer daily allowing it to impact their health, another person that goes through that same traumatic event may bury it within their body, not wanting to talk about it, not wanting to share, “its fine”, but its not. Trauma has made me stronger yet through yoga has also allowed me to heal, cry, learn what I can do. To trust that it is happening for me, and I can see this now. I propel myself into healing mode. I never imagined or even thought that I had PTSD until the person I went through this trauma with said that they were diagnosed with PTSD. Flashbacks are some serious shit, but I have trained myself to snap back into the present moment. Then there are the triggers and working through them is another story. Its also about being in the moment and asking “is there an actual threat or is this imaginary?” “Is this very thing I am thinking about true?” No, its my imagination running wild back to the traumatic experience.
Trauma will leave a scar and you have to allow it to heal, with time, with compassion, with care, with effort, with awareness. When triggered it can all come rushing back, the trembling, the anxiety, the fear, moving through the physical body. It can fade after trying to understand why and wanting to make peace with it. Make Peace with the past. Know that you have power over it. “Change the channel” instead of staying tuned to the stuck- past emotion...feel it, heal it and release it. I have noticed that as I allowed this powerful emotion to move through me like I was transported to the moment in time when the trauma occurred I had to bring myself back to the present moment and start listing off everything I am grateful for. 💓 Be present to the thoughts and emotions cursing through my body as I am reliving the trauma through my mind..From a somatic experience perspective, it is understood that these symptoms merely indicate unresolved activation or energy “stuck” in the body, and needs to be resolved. By noticing what is happening and allowing this natural self-protective impulses to be felt, and move through us with awareness, we experience the actual reality that the danger, threat or trauma is over and we can finally settle, bringing the entire cycle to completion. It takes time and effort and is possible.♥️
