Trauma: Mind, Body, Spirit
Healing the wound, finding meaning, rediscovering you.
Understand that you have the right to honor your baby as you choose. You have the right to name your baby and speak your baby’s name. You have the right to celebrate your baby’s lifetime. This right is inherent in that no one can give it to you and no one can take it from you.
Forgiveness is something that evolves, not something you choose.
“I continuously tell my patients, ‘You are not wrong. Rather, something very wrong happened to you’.”
Present day experiences which act as triggers can re-traumatize people.
In an article featured on The Cut, Erika Stallings chronicles how experiences in racist, toxic workplaces frequently lead to post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The more I accept exactly what the situation is…the better off I am. Reality is in the present, not the past. I notice, more and more, there is a certain kind of mourning that goes with letting go of the illusion and seeing that the relationship is not what I thought it was going to be…”