Phases of Recovery
What are the different phases you go through when coming back from trauma? Psychological trauma occurs as a result of some stressful events in life. It destroys your sense of safety and security and involves a basic threat to life, lack of trust.
Traumatic experiences can be coping, but it takes some time and your ability to blend emotions involved with the experience.
Psychological trauma usually makes a person hopeless and leaves a person struggling with their emotions.
When bad events happen, it can take time to get over the pain and sense of safety and security again.
Whether the trauma happened in past years or yesterday, you can heal from it and can move further into your happy life.
Any instance that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and frightened can be traumatic.
It’s not the purpose that determines whether an event is traumatic but preferably your subjective emotional experience of the event.
Healing from trauma is a personal process, and it looks different for different people.
Your distinctive ability to heal from trauma depends on many things that include your beliefs and perceptions. Your level of coping, connection towards others, and even your psychological functioning before the event.
Overcoming your feelings
The first thing in healing from trauma includes reestablishing feelings of stability and security. Trauma victims have insecure feelings. Regaining a sense of protection involves creating a secure and predictable environment.
Remembrance
The second stage is about processing the trauma and naming it. Begin to use words and emotions to give a name to trauma and explain your situation to your friends or have counseling from a therapist to reduce your trauma and heal you. Give yourself time to grieve and express your feelings.
Reconnection
The third phase is about giving new hope for the coming future. Allowing redefine yourself in a healing process. Take some steps to reclaim your personal willpower. Add a Mindful element.
Meditation can also calm and help you as well. Mindfulness tells you to live in the present moment rather than thinking of the past.
Post-traumatic growth
The fourth phase is post-traumatic growth. In this phase, you may be changed by your experience of trauma. Post-traumatic growth is experienced when positive mental health experiences are experienced, which raises you to a higher level of functioning than you otherwise have achieved.
Recovery
By going through these phases successfully, it will help you to be free from the traumatized life and live a meaningful and rewarding life. Recovery from trauma gives a person new meaning to his life and the strength and secret of living a happier life. You must allow yourself the opportunity to heal.
What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. We are all responsible for everything in our life. The best and the worse. Recovering from trauma gives us our control back. Don’t give away your power by blaming another person. We are the only ones thinking for ourselves. We can create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, then we can find it in our lives.
Many blessings to you.