Let’s start to take your life back and live healthier and longer. You have to be in the right frame of mind to learn anything, let’s try the next steps. This will assist in learning new ways to heal ourselves from the damages of trauma’s afflictions.
Top 10 Ways to Recover from Trauma
1. Negative Emotions
Start by managing negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, guilt, let’s start by shifting the kind of thinking that takes you to those feelings. Instead of focusing on your losses, uncertainties, think of your successes. You’ve been able to keep a roof over your head. Food on your table, the important things you have been able to provide. Despite your pain and suffering, you’re not on serious drugs, you have been able to keep a job, like the job, or not.
2. Negative Thoughts
Traumatic events can agitate us to the core, leaving us in shambles both mentally and physically. But stop thinking negatively.
3. Grow Where You are Planted
Psychologists are also finding that traumatic actions can change us into more robust, better individuals. The name that is given to this global phenomenon is “posttraumatic post-growth.” So, grow. Grow wherever you are, however you can.
4. Self-care
Take one day at a time. Take care of yourself. Shower, eat a healthy meal, eat a healthy snack, dance to your favorite music, walk, run, in other words, exercise. Get that negative energy out of your system.
5. Social Care
Go outside, visit your positive friends, stay away from friends that have a negative lifestyle. Don’t judge them, just stay away from bad influences. Drinking, drugs are not the answer. Look inside yourself and find out what your body is trying to tell you.
6. Self-expansion
I know this may sound silly, but meditate, pray, try talking to a professional, a therapist, someone you trust. Did I already say go to a support group? You might just find more people going through what you are going through. Find some new friends there. They know what you are going through, you are not alone.
7. Your Story
In the next step, you produce a narrative story about your story and the trauma and reflection afterward to accept the chapters already written and imagine crafting the next ones in a meaningful way. Giving you a different and positive feeling about your traumatic story and the stories you’re helping can and should be about a traumatic past that leads to a better and brighter future.
8. Go Pro
Find work that benefits others and helps or benefits you and other people. There is a broader community of victims with events similar to the ones you are enduring. So, help others who are in trouble and face difficulty in overcoming trauma symptoms. This can give you a sense of growth and peaceful life.
9. Take Your Time
Be patient with this process. Those who are practicing in this field know that timing is very important. Growth is a long procedure of process and it takes time.
However, when you and your comrades are ready, it is worth the effort. Let’s promise to do what is best for ourselves and learn from this crisis and do something productive that may help others.
10. New Normal
Being inactive life, going back to what made you happy in the first place is the last step. Think about how you have been able to dig someone out of their self-pity, we cannot do it alone, and really, we are not alone, there are millions like us, also suffering from trauma.
Not all of us are doing this alone, for example, Johnnetta McSwain suffered childhood trauma at the age of 4 years old. Wrote a book about her trauma and went to school to get her Ph.D. She wrote a statement that I would like to quote – “Becoming self-aware that we are women of strength who stand for survival, empowerment, motherhood, leadership, love, nurturing, beauty, respect and courage to overcome anything.” These words are so encouraging to all of us that can remember them and apply them to our lives.
Remember that we are not alone. We can do this.
Many blessings to all of us and God bless.