Identifying The Need For Healing - A Tailored Life Coaching For Caregivers

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The Healing Series

Nobody said life was easy

But who could have predicted how difficult it would be? Emotional trauma occurs more frequently than you might think. And if you’re suffering, it may take every ounce of effort you have to get out of bed each day and keep going.

There are a plethora of reasons why you are experiencing emotional distress. You may have new emotional wounds as a result of recent, trauma that left you reeling.

Sources of emotional trauma

Or, your emotional pain may be something you have carried around with you for decades, or even for most of your life. Perhaps the unkind or cruel words of an abusive parent that were uttered so long ago, has left you with a gut-punched feeling that never seems to go away. It’s a heavy emotional load that you carry – weighing down your chest, sinking deep in the pit of your stomach, and keeping your footsteps heavy as your spirit sags.

Grief

Another possibility for your emotional pain is grief – the loss of a loved one, perhaps a partner or family member whom you relied upon for emotional comfort and security. The loss could be about a person’s passing… or maybe it’s the result of a separation. Perhaps you moved away from your family or parted ways with your husband or wife after the divorce. This could have been by your own choice, or because someone else dictated this unfortunate fact of your life.

How to start healing

Whatever the source of your pain, one thing is certain. This is a time to heal. Healing is necessary and very much needed if we want to move on to a better place where our souls can once again thrive and our hearts can open to love again.

Most people won’t have any idea that deep within you, you are undergoing a transformation – that you are seeking and finding ways to release unhealthy emotions. But you will know, and you are the person who counts most in this scenario. If you have ever denied yourself or put another person’s emotions above your own and suffered because of it… you will now know differently. The time has come for self-care, self-acceptance, and self-love.

This healing time is your time. Be that nourishment to yourself that you sought but perhaps did not find, in another.

Yes… everyone goes through difficult emotions at times. But the beauty of it all is that this is your chance to grow and learn from past mistakes. In doing so, you can finally break out of old cycles that didn’t serve you, so you can move on and know real love.

Do your soul a favor, and give your precious self this time to heal. Taking the needed steps to reach emotional healing will be one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

One day, the butterfly of your soul will emerge from its proverbial cocoon. This new and stronger you will hopefully be able to look back on this difficult time of your life with greater understanding and newfound wisdom – maybe even gratitude for the lessons learned. And you’ll look back on this experience in a detached way… as though it was something lived by someone else.

Love yourself, heal yourself… and come to the place where you have moved outside of your own body and are now simply gazing back at the empty shell that once held the fragile, wounded soul that is no longer you.

Take all the time you need to heal and move into self-love.

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