In short, the answer is yes trauma can be continuously healed.
Trauma is as complex as people are. Each person’s situation in unique yet as clinicians we know there have been proven ways to help improve trauma. Below I list the top four reasons why trauma can be healed.
1. Our brains are always changing. Each new experience changes our neural networks which is just a fancy way of saying that they change our brain. Yes, it is true that trauma changes our brain as well. The good news is that as we have new healthy attachment experiences, begin to put in the therapeutic work and begin to relate to ourselves differently we begin to “pave new roads” in our brain so to speak. What we focus on grows and what we let go of begins to cease having as much control over us.
2. There are proven therapies that work. Research experts have been evaluating trauma based interventions for over 30 years and what they have found is that certain interventions really work. Some of those interventions include EMDR, mindfulness, IFS, and Brainspotting.
3. It’s all about healthy relationships. What research has also proven to us is that although we can become the most traumatized within relationships, we can also find the most long-term healing for trauma within healthy relationships. The most important part of therapy in terms of effectiveness is the therapeutic relationship.
4. Human beings are resilient. We have learned that humans can withstand unbearable pain and come out the other side more compassionate, stronger and wiser human beings. Trauma, although painful, can also give someone incredible knowledge of how to help others going through the same thing. We are never alone and we are capable of more than we think.
If you have any more questions about trauma, PTSD and CPTSD please reach out via the Metta Holistic Therapy contact page or email me directly at reneeminxtherapy@gmail.com
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