What No One Told Me About Healing Trauma

Healing trauma is a cyclical grief process.

It means learning to live with my pain better by tolerating acceptance and the past versions of who I used to be.

It means sitting with my acceptance long enough to turn it into self-compassion.

It means understanding this process is hell, and it's okay.

It's okay to cry.

It's okay to be angry.

It's okay to unravel even just for a few seconds and look into the wound and understand why my life played out the way it did.

I sit with my wounds long enough to know trauma was never my fault, and even though I may feel like a burden in every cell in my body, I make a promise to myself to keep fighting.

I must believe I was born worthy.

I must believe I was born to be loved.

I must believe I was born to be safe.

Although I may not have received everything I was born to deserve, I still have the power to reclaim my power, my identity, and my humanity.