“Traumatic events impair our ability to trust in existence. Even more devastating, our self-trust is undermined. Without this trust in ourselves and our own instincts and perceptions, we are adrift and remain open to further trauma. You must learn to trust yourself again and learn how to nurture your own self-trust through meditation and the alchemical practice of witnessing.
Symptoms of buried trauma
- Issues around trust, particularly self-trust
- The obsessive need for control
- Panic attacks
- Hypervigilance
- Feeling overly responsible – high levels of self-blame
- Unreasonable attempts to rescue others
- Difficulty with relationships and attachment
- Suicidal thoughts
- Feelings of worthlessness and ongoing depression
- High levels of conflict avoidance
- Eating disorders and/or self-harm
- Constantly feeling like a victim and overreacting to perceived slights
We often try to manage unresolved trauma through medication, self-medication with addictions, or by intellectualizing our emotions and projecting our pain externally into various ’causes’. But the effects of trauma remain in the nervous system and continue to run our lives. Real healing from trauma arises only from the inner work of transformation through awareness. Trauma avoidance only makes things worse.
Trauma Healing will teach you the following:
- To develop a new, healthier relationship with your bodymind and emotions
- To release blocked energy and become more alive and flowing
- Techniques for use in situations that would normally trigger shock or shame, so that you can process them easily and naturally and return to inner balance.
- How to access your own inbuilt alchemical superpower – witnessing – to transmute trauma into awareness and joy
- The confidence to accept that life’s challenges are not a sign that life is victimizing you, but a gift from existence that helps you to grow in awareness and love.
- To master the knack of remaining centered when life throws you a curveball.”
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