Trauma has become a word which is no longer reserved for rare or extreme cases, but is now a common experience for many of us. The greatest secret in healing trauma is that your feelings about the trauma won’t harm you more than the actual trauma did. We are prisoners to our history when we keep our history from our current reality. This history of trauma then becomes an enemy who dictates a pattern of self-sabotage, affecting our minds and, by extension, our lives.

Learning to tolerate and accept our emotions is the basic work of being human, but also of healing trauma. Our emotions, like our bodies and our minds, are compasses for our well-being. The bridge between our body and our mind is our emotions. This bridge allows us to stop and see, at any point in our lives, whether we are functioning or dysfunctional. Utilizing our emotions as the intuitive compass of our life journey presents an opportunity to change ourselves on a deeper and more spiritual level.