Dealing With Trauma

Let’s go down that path of memory lane that sucks.

You are the person that you are because of things that happened to you in the past. Everything that you do comes from your childhood. 95% of who you are now was already locked in place by the time you were 7 years old.?

Isn’t that crazy? That the memories we hold onto (whether we’re aware of it or not) are that of a 7-year-old, who although very cute, is naive and lacks emotional intelligence. Yet, our lives are run by those memories and traumas unless we go and do a whole lot of personal development on ourselves.

This is why we’re going to chat about reliving old childhood memories that maybe you’ve forgotten or suppressed. This might be THE most important thing that somebody can do on their path to personal and spiritual development. Even if you think that old memories don’t matter, they leave what I like to call, “emotional residue” and sometimes they can seem so insignificant but can have such a big impact.?

Trauma is trauma, no matter what. You cannot compare your trauma to someone else’s trauma.

If you don’t go and change these memories, then you’re going to be a 7-year-old child in your brain with that memory forever. But if you relive them now, you can look at this memory as a 35-year-old, emotionally intelligent being and possibly change the emotion that is attached to that memory.?

The question that I have for you is what memories do you have to relieve and see from a different perspective? Sometimes you’ve got to go and relive those in a safe place whether that’s with someone that you love or an actual therapist. It’s not going to feel good, but you’ve got to reset it back in place so that you can not have those same issues for the remainder of your life.?

Relive the memories that you could be hiding from. Let go of the past so that you could go forward into the future. The best way to start today is by journaling through it, writing it down, and figuring out if something is holding you back. Yes, it’s going to be tough, but letting go of those emotional chains will be so worth it.?

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