Mental health is to break free from your trauma cycle.
Psychologist Dr. Tracy Hutchinson writes on how to process it.
“Many people are able to process the trauma and see it in a more positive perspective through counseling, social support, or through support of the community like a spiritual congregation. Unfortunately, for many, previous ‘hard times’ stay with them and emerge later in life. If you have any of the symptoms mentioned, please know it is a natural and normal way that your body is telling you that something needs healing.”
Lorna, a pretty and talented patient in-session, is too tired already. She seeks out a therapist to break free.
For 40 years of her life, she continues to get caught up in her unending feelings of inadequacy, fear, abandonment, and people-pleasing behavior.
Life was harsh to her. As a child, she was abandoned by both her parents to a yaya.
Eventually adopted, Lorna lived in a nice house but got raped by her adoptive father several times during her teens. She told her adoptive mother about it who didn’t believe her.
Lorna finally found the courage to run away and be on her own. She started working serving food at a high-end restaurant where she later became manager.
Privately, she’s a mess. She’d have frequent flashbacks and moments of uncontrollable panic and anxiety.
To cope, she had become used to get drunk, take shabu, and have sex with different strangers. That was all she knew to numb the pain she constantly experienced.
Obviously, Lorna needs to break free from her trauma cycle. There’s nothing wrong with her, it’s the trauma!
And she’s starting a new life by healing herself through psychotherapy and spirituality. In her process, she breaks free by:
- learning to gain peace of mind
- acquiring self mastery, awareness, and responsibility
- developing natural self control
- overthrowing her inner critic and shadow that leads to self sabotage
- building a relationship with her higher self and Power
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