Greetings daring Columbia, Missouri and beyond!
I want to address expectations around healing and recovery. When we decide to begin the journey of self-discovery and healing, we often carry with us subconscious expectations about how much time the process is going to take. We all have goals, plans, and budgets to consider. These are practical, grounded considerations. That being said, healing our head and heart is a gradual process that happens incrementally over time. It’s a form of slow medicine that requires patience, flexibility and commitment.
Not only is the process gradual, it’s also cyclical. This means we can be progressing at a steady pace, seeing trauma symptoms start to lessen and then…BAM! All of a sudden we stumble upon something that takes us down to our knees again. It can be easy to get discouraged or feel like a failure, but the opposite is true.
Have you ever heard of spirals of manifestation? Are you familiar with sacred geometry or the the golden ratio? Long story short, there are shapes we find in nature that repeat throughout the earth. One of those shapes is the spiral. When we ponder the wisdom this shape has to offer, we can see the way in which our own journey of trauma healing replicates it. Throughout life, we will continue to have upward cycles and downward cycles.
When we’re at the top of the spiral flying high, making great progress, we want to exercise a healthy practice of gratitude and celebration for how far we’ve come! And when we’re on the downward side of the spiral, we want to have compassion for our suffering by reminding ourselves what goes down will soon come up again. Getting stalled in trauma brain can make it difficult to believe there’s an up after a down because we may have been stuck in the mud of the downs for such a long time prior to active healing.
So next time you find yourself spiraling down, do not fret. I promise you’ll spiral right back up again, and this time even higher than the last! Bring on the loop de loops and hold on tight. When you’re truly living life, it’s one heck of a rewarding ride.
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