Bend the Arc of Your Trauma History
The past stays present after trauma until we boldly seek change.
By Dr T J Jordan
Trauma leaves footprints on our hearts that limit the intimacy and selfhood we reach for in later life. It makes us vulnerable in the extreme.
Trauma envelopes us in shame and a sense of inadequacy. Among other impacts, trauma teaches us insidiously that we are unworthy of love. It halts our progress toward empowering new relationships that could teach us about being worthy and desirable. It suffocates personal growth.
We struggle with post-trauma disorders of anxiety, depression, and even dissociation because we don’t want the facts of our trauma to be true. But like an untended infection that festers, trauma doesn’t begin to heal until we release ourselves from its grasp.
We need to bend the arc of our personal histories so that we can finally understand ourselves and experience loving with full liberty.
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