Healing Trauma is Slow In All The Ways Trauma Is Fast!
Trauma shouts while Healing whispers.
Trauma teaches the body to react while Healing encourages us to choose new adaptive tools.
Trauma steals while Healing restores.
Trauma overwhelms the nervous system instantly while Healing requires time to feel safe again.
One of my favorite parts working with individuals who are healing from trauma is witnessing their relationship with themselves shift from thoughts and feelings of blame, shame, and guilt towards one with more self-love, acceptance, compassion, and understanding. Healing from something traumatic is an on-going process and it requires a slow, gentle approach allowing the brain and body to process overwhelming feelings gradually, build new coping skills and integrate experiences safely.
Within your healing journey, growth is not always forward. Growth includes highs and lows, pauses, and even moments that feel like taking steps backwards. Old patterns can reappear and new triggers may surface. Sometimes, you may feel hypervigilant again and coping is difficult. In healing trauma, revisiting old responses and exploring current patterns becomes an opportunity to learn more about yourself. These moments are met with more self-love, self-acceptance, self-awareness rather than judgement and self- criticism.
Healing is all about being intentional and building capacity to try new things. Staying curious and living in the gray area. Every little effort builds on the previous one. Looking at past trauma will bring discomfort, anger, and sadness at first but small shifts and intentional effort will carry big weight. This can look like: pausing before reacting, noticing body sensations, recovering faster after stress, labeling an emotion, effectively communicating what you need in any given moment, or setting a boundary. All of these signs of healing matter and are meant to be celebrated.
Healing after trauma is not about erasing, forgetting, minimizing, or rewriting the past. It’s about learning to live with what happened without it defining your worth, controlling your present or limiting your future. The body learns that the past is over, even when it remembers.
Everyone needs something different to heal but healing is real and is possible!
At A Link in Healing Counseling, your healing journey moves at a pace that is right for you. My goal is to make sure your voice is heard and for you to feel safe and supported at every step. Together, we will improve your sense of safety, sense of self, and improve your ability to regulate emotions and responses. Together, we will explore solutions to gain emotional stability, balance, growth, and peace in your life that you deserve.
Get started by scheduling a free consultation, calling 248-800-8848 or by sending an email at amy@linkinhealing.com.