Welcome beautiful soul! I’m so sorry for the pain and trauma you’ve experienced in your life that brought you here, but so happy you’re taking the steps to get healed. Darkness, trials, and trauma are parts of life we can’t escape, but YOU are in control of how you navigate them, and more importantly, who you become on the other side of them.

My crooked, sometimes dark path to healing has taken me on a profound journey of understanding the impacts of trauma, where I finally found my voice and the truth that says my real strength lies in sharing my story. Trauma stole my childhood and two decades of my adult life until I finally decided to take my power back.

You know the saying, “Knowledge is power?” Well, for me, gaining the knowledge and understanding of exactly how the trauma affected me was the first step in my healing and transformation journey. That knowledge then empowered me to learn how to fix the damage done—and now I’m here to share it with you!

So … What Exactly is Trauma?

Answering this question seems the most obvious place to start since trauma is often misunderstood. While it stems from stressful or dangerous experiences, trauma is less about the event itself and more about how your brain responds to the physical and psychological stress the event causes.

Feelings of fear and shame caused by traumatic situations, while simultaneously feeling overwhelmed and helpless, trigger your emotional, or survival, brain to perceive a threat to safety or connection which sends the nervous system into an overreactive fight-flight, or freeze response pattern—also known as dysregulation.

Being in a dysregulated state interferes with your brain’s ability to process the thoughts, emotions, meanings, body sensations, and memories associated with the trauma. Because your nervous system is wired to protect you, it creates ways to avoid further pain—also known as protective patterns.

These protective patterns show up in your thoughts, choices, and behaviors as a subconscious way to protect you, but unfortunately, they disconnect you from yourself and others. Dissociation is one of the many protective patterns the nervous system creates to avoid the painful thoughts, emotions, and sensations associated with fear and shame.

3 Rs of Healing Trauma

Trauma does an incredible amount of damage but there is hope through the amazing healing power that God has wired into every part of you! Wholeness and freedom are possible with gentle, focused consistent work using the 3 Rs of Healing: Regulating, Releasing, and Rewiring.

Faith-based holistic practices that connect your body, soul, & spirit to regulate your nervous system, release stored trauma, and rewire your brain are powerful tools that allow you to heal from trauma & emerge from the dark seasons of life beautifully transformed! A faith-based holistic approach to healing focuses on your entire being because every part matters and is wired to heal—body, soul, and spirit.

Body Practices

You can address your body to regulate your nervous system and release stored trauma through somatic practices that signal safety, dignity, and connection to the limbic system through the language of sensation. These practices use movement, breath, and posture to cue safety and speak to the body on its terms.

Over 80% of the messages flowing through you are from body to brain, which makes you a bottom-up being. Your body is in the driver’s seat, not your brain, so you cannot talk yourself into calmness. When your “survival brain” is activated, your "thinking/cognitive brain" goes offline, and your survival operating system takes over.

Trauma is a somatic experience meaning it's experienced, stored, and re-lived in and through your body in the form of sensations, behaviors, and feelings. Healing requires that you not only tell but also show your nervous system that you are safe, and somatic practices are one powerful way to do this using the body’s own language of sensation.

Soul Practices

You can address your soul through mental and emotional practices to regulate your nervous system and rewire core wounds and subconscious programming. Mind-based practices like visualizations use the power of imagination and reason to rewire your brain by signaling safety, dignity, and connection.

Emotional practices like inner child and wounded parts work, story work, and self-attunement, done in small doses, rewire the brain, promoting peace, hope, and happiness, helping you move out of painful emotional patterns like fear, grief, anger, and hopelessness which often dominate where there is unresolved trauma.

Spiritual Practices

You can address your spirit through faith-based spiritual practices that draw your heart to God and build faith in Him and His supernatural healing power. These practices allow you to collaborate with God in your healing journey—inviting His power, allowing Him to show you His love and heart to heal your every wound.

Focused, daily, consistent body, soul, and spirit practices form new neuropathways in your brain which over time leads to long-term healing. Complete healing from trauma is possible through a faith-based holistic approach. Check out this post, 3 Life-Changing Tips for Faith-Based Holistic Trauma Healing, for some great faith-based holistic practices to regulate, release, and rewire!

To learn more about faith-based holistic healing check out these posts: The Missing Piece to Your Complete Healing and 3 Phases of Faith-Based Holistic Trauma Healing.

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The 3 Rs of Healing Trauma