What does your personal healing journey entail? How can you intentionally cultivate a path towards healing that is unique to your experiences and needs? 🌿💫 #HealingJourney #SelfCare #SelfHealing
Exploring Your Healing Journey:
1. Self-Reflection: Take time to reflect on your past experiences and traumas that may be impacting your current state of being.
2. Seeking Support: Connect with supportive community, therapists, and holistic healers to aid in your healing process.
3. Self-Care Practices: Implement self-care routines that nourish your mind, body, and spirit.
4. Mindfulness: Practice being present and mindful to foster inner growth and resilience.
5. Healing Modalities: Explore different healing modalities such as therapy, energy work, meditation, yoga, and more.
6. Gratitude: Cultivate gratitude for your progress and celebrate small victories along the way.
The biggest thing for me was forgiveness, and that was largely because I didn’t understand it. I always thought of it as absolving the person who hurt you from accountability, when in reality it is releasing the burden put upon us by others’ actions and behavior.
The trauma we endure is never our fault, and we often know it, but there is a difference between knowing something and feeling it.
The biggest one for me was with my dad. It took a very long time for me to not blame myself for the way I was treated. But I have been able to forgive him and tell myself that I am not responsible for his actions.
I have some books and videos I could recommend if this is something you struggle with.
Accepting that you won’t get closure and forgiveness isn’t for them, but for your self peace.
Still trying to figure that out
Time. Distance. Giving yourself grace while you heal, and understanding you’re not going to be better in a finger-snap. Take your time and just *be*. When you’re ready for the next step, you’ll know.
Understand that time doesn’t rewind. It’s not about going back to what you were. You can’t. It’s about making a happier and healthier version of who you are now.
Time, and being able to make peace with things that happened, let go and accept it as it is.
Gym, hanging out with friends, solo dates, hobbies, therapy, and occasional retail therapy 😅
Healing is often portrayed as something amazing but it’s a very painful process sometimes. It looked like taking many different meds, psychotherapy, seeing a psychiatrist, cutting some people off and waiting for time to pass for me. I wanted to give up all the time but I’m happy I didn’t.
I can talk about it for hours but if I try to resume it as short as i can possibly do (which I can’t lol) : I had put myself in hermit mode the first time, focused all of my attention onto myself, getting back on track mentally and physically that at some point I believed that I was “healed” just because of my actions but I completely neglected the fact that I was still carrying my past and that my self-concepts didn’t existed so at some point I completely reached rock bottom and had let myself sink for a couple of years, sometimes I was making attempts to recover based on how I did it in the past but it kept on failing.
Then one day I finally got ready to work on what was actually preventing me from making sustainable progress : going to emdr therapy (ironically I spent the 12 years going to all type of therapist but this one is the only one that worked for me). From that point everything started to become easier, I went on a quest to discover myself, get to the root of everything to the point I didn’t even needed to tell myself “I need to forgive my own self” because it naturally happened with the more I focused on processing past information and putting them back where they belonged.
And most importantly doing this whole process helped me to “grow my brain”, when we experience early life/childhood trauma our body and age can grow but our brain might still be stuck at the “trauma-age” so I started to mentally grow, I went from an 8 years old in a 25 years old body, then 12, then …
That is when everything started to become easier for me, my reactions and dormant anger became calm, I succeeded to become sober after 14 years of daily drinking, I now view the world from my own eyes and what I mean by that it’s : I’m no longer viewing the world from the personalities I had took from others nor from what society wants me to but completely from my own eyes, I had made my own definition of everything, I figured out what “happiness, success, love” and such important goals in a human life means to me and not what I can find online or hear.
Resources : at first it was spiritual videos, I went deep into spirituality, I still include it in my daily life, a lot of psychology and neurology books, diving deep into my natal chart, and the book that helped me the most in the end is “the art of being alone”. Just curiosity to have knowledge on something I had 0 tools on because without the knowledge I wouldn’t had been able to do something I never did nor that nobody ever shown me the how.
Never ending