Tag: Emotional Numbing
-

Why Waiting to Be Fully Healed May Be Keeping You From The Very Experiences That Help You Heal
Life Is Not What Happens After Healing. Life Is Where Healing Happens. A Gentle Note Before You Begin This article explores trauma, healing, nervous system recovery, and some of the challenges many survivors experience along the way, including anxiety, hypervigilance, grief, shame, and emotional triggers. While there are no graphic descriptions of traumatic events, you…
-

8 Ways Trauma Survivors Mastered the Art of Surviving the Unsurvivable
The question isn’t “What’s wrong with you?” The question is “How did you survive?” A Gentle Note Before You Begin This article explores the ways trauma can shape the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and nervous system. Along the way, it discusses experiences that many survivors may find familiar, including abuse, neglect, emotional invalidation, fear, grief,…
-

Sometimes Trauma Healing Feels Like Falling Apart Again
Returning to old pain before you can heal it. A Gentle Note Before You Begin This article explores trauma recovery, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, grief, emotional numbness, dissociation, and the experience of feeling worse before feeling better. For some readers, these topics may stir tender emotions, memories, or bodily sensations. If that happens, please…

