I began this blog full of passion for the subject of self-empowered healing of body, mind and spirit. I knew I had lots to share on the subject since I have healed myself of much emotional pain and many illnesses, some of which had me on disability for a few years.
So, I kept asking myself, why am I not eager to write blog posts for my new site? Why do I feel so uninspired and listless about what I thought was my passion? The site certainly wasn’t growing near as quickly as I had envisioned.
My gut knew the answer, as did my heart. I kept ignoring them and plodding along the path I thought I wanted to travel. All along the fire inside of me was dying and, some days, I thought about just closing the blog. Before I did that, I wanted to be sure that it was the correct decision so I continued to journal, think, meditate and ask for answers.
Thankfully, I finally got around to listening to what my heart and my gut were telling me and the answer was crystal clear. The fact is that, as a child, I suffered almost every form of abuse. It has taken me years of therapy, and work on myself to heal. With a lot of hard work and caring people in my corner, I finally was able to make peace with my past and move on. The memories of the abuse are still there, they just no longer have the power to trigger me in any way.
The path I traveled to heal involved many, many healing modalities along with therapy, herbs, medications, etc. I gained a lot of knowledge along the way that I would like to now share in hopes it helps someone else.
As I stated earlier, I began this blog with a passion for self-empowered healing of body, mind and spirit. What I neglected to do was remember that the audience I most want to speak to is the audience I most understand. It is abuse survivors who are trying to heal their bodies and their lives. It is survivors who now have to deal with physical illness brought on by the trauma of abuse and the years of PTSD they have endured. This is a subject I have researched a lot as I was learning to heal myself. It has been amazing how physical illness is leaving my body now that I am more healthy emotionally.
I think I hoped to walk away from the abuse healed and normal. Therefore I wanted to make my blog more “normal.” First, I have to ask myself, “what is normal?” Second, I am no longer ashamed of the fact that I was abused so why the need to keep it out of my blog posts? I am not completely clear on the answers to these questions. However, I do know that I was headed down the wrong path by trying to cull talk of abuse from my blog.
To me self-empowerment and self-love are the biggest keys to healing. We have spent too many years feeling powerless. It requires taking back our power to truly be able to close the wounds of abuse and step into the fullness of who we are and who we were meant to be. I do believe that we all have the ability to do that. We can all heal.
Part of healing is discovering a love for ourselves that brings with it a peace like we have never known. This is not a conceited love. It is an appreciative love where we truly value ourselves, our thoughts, feelings, needs and desires. The lack of love we felt as children we truly can give to ourselves.
We all deserve and can enjoy healthy, happy, joyful lives as empowered adults. I have done just that and I will do my best to share all I have learned in hopes that some of it resonates with you.
Anyone who wishes to heal body, mind and spirit is welcome here. I hope that some of what I have to share will help you along your healing path. I would love to have lively discussions in the comment section where you can share your healing ideas and various things that have worked for each of you.
Now, I feel energized and ready to get back to what I began when I conceived of this blog!
I began this blog full of passion for the subject of self-empowered healing of body, mind and spirit. I knew I had lots to share on the subject since I have healed myself of much emotional pain and many illnesses, some of which had me on disability for a few years.
So, I kept asking myself, why am I not eager to write blog posts for my new site? Why do I feel so uninspired and listless about what I thought was my passion? The site certainly wasn’t growing near as quickly as I had envisioned.
My gut knew the answer, as did my heart. I kept ignoring them and plodding along the path I thought I wanted to travel. All along the fire inside of me was dying and, some days, I thought about just closing the blog. Before I did that, I wanted to be sure that it was the correct decision so I continued to journal, think, meditate and ask for answers.
Thankfully, I finally got around to listening to what my heart and my gut were telling me and the answer was crystal clear. The fact is that, as a child, I suffered almost every form of abuse. It has taken me years of therapy, and work on myself to heal. With a lot of hard work and caring people in my corner, I finally was able to make peace with my past and move on. The memories of the abuse are still there, they just no longer have the power to trigger me in any way.
The path I traveled to heal involved many, many healing modalities along with therapy, herbs, medications, etc. I gained a lot of knowledge along the way that I would like to now share in hopes it helps someone else.
As I stated earlier, I began this blog with a passion for self-empowered healing of body, mind and spirit. What I neglected to do was remember that the audience I most want to speak to is the audience I most understand. It is abuse survivors who are trying to heal their bodies and their lives. It is survivors who now have to deal with physical illness brought on by the trauma of abuse and the years of PTSD they have endured. This is a subject I have researched a lot as I was learning to heal myself. It has been amazing how physical illness is leaving my body now that I am more healthy emotionally.
I think I hoped to walk away from the abuse healed and normal. Therefore I wanted to make my blog more “normal.” First, I have to ask myself, “what is normal?” Second, I am no longer ashamed of the fact that I was abused so why the need to keep it out of my blog posts? I am not completely clear on the answers to these questions. However, I do know that I was headed down the wrong path by trying to cull talk of abuse from my blog.
To me self-empowerment and self-love are the biggest keys to healing. We have spent too many years feeling powerless. It requires taking back our power to truly be able to close the wounds of abuse and step into the fullness of who we are and who we were meant to be. I do believe that we all have the ability to do that. We can all heal.
Part of healing is discovering a love for ourselves that brings with it a peace like we have never known. This is not a conceited love. It is an appreciative love where we truly value ourselves, our thoughts, feelings, needs and desires. The lack of love we felt as children we truly can give to ourselves.
We all deserve and can enjoy healthy, happy, joyful lives as empowered adults. I have done just that and I will do my best to share all I have learned in hopes that some of it resonates with you.
Anyone who wishes to heal body, mind and spirit is welcome here. I hope that some of what I have to share will help you along your healing path. I would love to have lively discussions in the comment section where you can share your healing ideas and various things that have worked for each of you.
Now, I feel energized and ready to get back to what I began when I conceived of this blog!