Tackling Trauma
Welcome to our Resources and Submissions for you and loved ones who have experienced trauma. We hope you find healing, solace and connection here. We have books, podcasts, journals, games and more to help you find your elements and guide you on your healing journey. Share your stories and creations in how you’re moving from victim to survivor to thriver in this wild ride of life. If there’s a resource that has helped you which may be missing from our list we’d love to have it so we can add it. We all need help and connection with others. Exploring and sharing here is a great place to find the elements you’re looking for.
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GRIEF
Understanding how part of the pain of my trauma is that I was never taught the skill of how to deal with grief in a healthy manner. My EGO helped me survive by stuffing all the grief I experienced and never processed it therefore never allowing the pain to move through me. This is a short writing describing how I now view grief with open arms.
—Todd G.
Grief is many things: Grief is a source of pain. When ignored, grief is fuel for addictive behaviors. Grief is a necessary human emotional process. Grief has many stages. Grief seemingly comes and goes as it pleases. Grief is a teacher. Grief can be a beautiful form of self-love.
When you feel it come knocking, invite it in to stay as long as it needs to. Say to it, “I love you and I am listening.” If it tells you to feel angry, then feel anger. If it tells you to feel sad, then feel sad. Just don’t react to these feelings, sit with them and allow them to tell you a story.
Listen with your heart and not your head. Grieving is not about issuing blame, as that is an ego response to ignore the pain. It is a forgiveness process as this is a heart response that leads to long lasting relief from the pain. If you numb the feelings, you will miss it’s teaching and prolong the pain.
So grab a pen and paper and let the pain flow out as ink on the paper. Or use that God given voice of yours to release the energy that comes with this process and share your feelings with someone who treats you with unconditional love.
Ultimately, don’t miss out on the opportunity to practice living in your heart space and showing your ego that you got this! ~ Path To True Self
Fire For Water
Cold eyes with hardened voice come from the darkness
To absorb her frail and shivering body.
She is buried in his massiveness --
Not as a shelter from evil, but as a haven for it.
Even a thin sheet could protect her nakedness
From being frozen into a huddled nothingness.
She fears suffocation as the already black room
Grows darker and creeps within.
The isolation seeps and drips into the pure, sweet waters.
The mist chills as the silent scream grows in her ears.
How can one so small satisfy one so consuming?
Tossing under the blanket that she once thought would shield
She relives the angry sweat a thousand times.
The dark emptiness has turned into the fury of hell.
Each second feels like an inescapable eternal torment
And she trembles as the memory
Burns deeper in her flammable soul.
The charcoal hopes reek of anguish as
The dancing flames celebrate eminent victory as they lure her fragile shell.
She walks slowly toward the fire that is so cold and dark that
She will never forget.