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RE: Healing After Trauma: how we respond to pain makes all the difference

in #health7 years ago

Thanks for sharing this insight and experience. I'm glad you are okay from the accident, both physically and emotionally.

It's true, some people have one traumatic experience in life after another to the point that they start expecting it. So they miss even the good times that could be there, because they are guarded against the good and accepting of the bad. Over time they either become depressed (turning against themselves) or hostile (turning against the world).

It takes a lot of wisdom, courage, and loving support to be able to react in the way you describe. It helps us all each time someone models doing that.

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Thank you.

You’re so true when you say we need good models. In fact, much inspiration from my own choices during healing from this accident came from a person I admire a lot who modeled a good reaction to a car accident. Her family was in one and she, a reiki practitioner, spent time especially with her step son to make sure he didn’t carry any of it in his body or have any remnential trauma afterward.

We could all use such healing care after our traumas. I also like how you framed it as depressed - inward and hostile -outward turning trauma. That is so true and what I have witnessed as well. Pain is such a common denominator in the human, I hope we can talk about it more often and air it out so we can all feel freer to choose healing paths. <3