Your healing journey do support you put a trauma to rest and get you ready moving on with the university of life. Taking care of yourself by coping with your emotions and heal with your body. Begin some new practices to support you stay calm in your body. Now is a good time to rely on other humans for support, so reach out to family and friends. Many humans see a therapist or joining a support group as chunk of their healing. Talking to your psychiatrist or primary care physician about whether medication could cover up the whole matter. Wise thoughts and medication will not cure your trauma, but might make certain symptoms easy to deal with. Medications are the most effective when taken while you are also going to the therapy. Join an online group or Find a trauma support group in your local community.

Coping with Your Feelings

Feel your emotions. It might be easier to push your inner emotions away or pretended they does not exist. You might even think of yourself as strong to not engaged with your emotions. However, it’s significant to feel what you want to feel regarding your trauma. Your emotions are valid, so let yourself express them.

• For example, if something makes you feel angry, expressing that anger. If you become overwhelmed with sadness, don’t be scared to cry.
• You might keen wish to talk about your emotions with a therapist or friend or pen up them down in a journal. Do what supports you express your emotions.

Negative emotions won’t just disappear immediately and might come and go for some time, but this is healthy and normal. You might alternate between periods of happiness, sadness, anger, guilt, fear or others. Embraces a negative emotions do support you understand and working through them sooner. Likewise, whenever you are feeling awesome, enjoy it! You earned it!

Tell your story. 

Many survivors of trauma discover it therapeutic to tell their tales and repeat them. Talk about the trauma do support express the pain and support to restore power back to you. It can also assist you remove the awful emotions attached to the event. This might mean talking about it in a therapist’s office or support group, or with family and friends.

• If talking about your tale gives you extreme anxiety, see the mental health professional who specializes in trauma for advice so you ignore further traumatizing yourself in the process. If you aren’t certain but feel like trying, begin with brief disclosures and then gauge how you felt.
• If you don’t need to tell your story, sometimes it can assist to provide support for someone else who needs it.
• While many humans find it helpful to talk, you might need to express your emotions through dancing, singing, our journaling.

Embrace your spirituality.

Some humans turning towards spirituality or religion as a pathway to heal and working through trauma. Your beliefs might support you navigate the meaning and purpose of the negative experiences or support you connect with something outside of yourself. You might take refuge and comfort in your beliefs of a higher power and greater plan.

Joining a spiritual community or participate in spiritual practices on your own. Start up by medicating or by read out sacred texts. 

Being a chunk of the spiritual community might help you gather with other like-minded individuals ready to support you and support you.

Get involved in activities. 

Don’t let your entire life revolving around your trauma. Constantly thinking about the trauma could be draining and removing you from the rest of life. Part of healing is having things and experiences in your life journey that don’t involving the trauma. Enjoying some social activities like getting together with friends, going bowling, or attend concerts. Try to experience some “normal” time.

• If you’re invited to spend time with buds, do your best to go, even if you don’t feel like it.
• Spend time doing “normal” stuff do help you feel like you’re moving towards a much more normal life once again.
• On the other side, you don’t want to try to do so many stuff you have no time at all to think about your trauma. You may try designating a specific time to think about it, processing grieve and emotions. You might eventually learn how to ‘save’ emotions or thought that pop up throughout your daytime for you to go over during your designated time.
• Even as you get involved with activities, take measures to felt safe. For example, go with other humans you trust, stay in well-lit public zones, and permit yourself to leave if you ever feel unsafe.

Ignore turning to alcohol and drugs. 

Self-medicating with drugs and alcohol might felt good in the moment, but spirituality won’t make the trauma go away or assist you on your healing procedure. Using alcohol and drugs tends to mask your issues momentarily, but do lead to addiction and other mental or emotional issues. Cope with your emotions in a healthier manner and don’t turning to addictive substances for a quick fix.

• Remembering that addictive behaviors are not limited to drugs, but could involve excessive eating, spending, technology or gambling use. Practice moderation to ignore these extremes.

If you think you might have an addiction, getting treatment and do activities that don’t revolving around addictive substances.

Use relaxation. 

Because trauma often resulting in alertness and hyper vigilance, you might want to practice relaxation every day for 30 minutes to cope with the daily stressors. This do help you deal with stressors as they happen without letting them accumulate. Relaxation can also support you with stabilizing, anxiety, and depression your moods.

• Scheduling a consistent daily time for these activities instead of try to do them just when you think you want them. By forming these good habits you will be more likely to practice them even when you don’t really felt like it or on a rough day, which is when you want to relax the most.
• Have “mini-relaxation” activities on hand that you do when you felt anxious and are not at home. For example, carrying around essential oils, a stress ball, a book that you enjoy, or a fidget spinner that you can utilize anywhere.

Practice mindfulness. 

Connect to the present moment through your senses, especially if you’re felt threatened.  Mindfulness includes bringing non-judgmental and focused awareness to your experience. It can support a threatened body or mind come into a calm, non-reactive state. If you felt triggered out by something, engaged yourself in some mindful practice to bring you back to present moment.

• There are lots of manners to practice mindfulness. You do aim on one sense at a time (like listening intently or visually scanning the room in detail) or aim on your breathing.
• Mindfulness can be challenging at first, but will become much easy with practice. Noone is adept at this technique when they are just beginning out, so don’t get discouraged and give up! Considering trying guided meditations to familiarize yourself with it, either in a class or from different online resources.

Start exercising. 

Though trauma was huge manner psychological, some physical interventions could support you were getting unstuck. Do something that required full-body movements such as swimming, running, dancing or walking. Notice the sensations in your body as you move and put your aim and awareness fully onto your body.  Some sports to try that include your full body and need concentration include martial arts, boxing, and rock climbing.

Take care of your health. 

While you’re healing, make certain you’re taking care of your body. Getting plenty of sleep (7-9 hours each night), and live a healthier lifestyle. Keeping on top of your physical health do support you deal with stress and help with feelings of depression and anxiety.

• Stay away from drugs and alcohol as ways to cope. Prioritize your healing by staying committed to healthier living habits.

Getting Support

Find a safe place. When recovering from trauma, it’s imperative to have a place that felt safe. Your body might be on higher alert when you’re out and about, so have a place you felt entirely safe. This might be your a restaurant, bedroom, or a friend’s or parent’s house. The significant thing is that you felt safe and not threatened.

• You might also need to have activities that make you felt safe at your safe place. This might be singing, dancing, talking to someone, or pen up in a journal.

Spend time with friends and family.

You don’t have to talk about the trauma, but surrounding yourself with people who love and support you. If you felt like talking, sharing inner emotions with someone, specifically face-to-face. If you don’t feel like talking, be around life and people who make you feel supported and you do talk to if you want to.

• Lean on humans who will listen and caring about you. If there are buds who often drain you, taking some time away and aim on being with the humans who add to your life positively.

Some humans might try to tell you to “get over it” or otherwise pushing you to move on before you are ready. While these humans usually mean well, or might be trying to deal with their own discomfort over the situation, being around them too much could be detrimental to your recovery.