Deep healing involves acknowledging and processing painful emotions through self-compassion, mindfulness, and professional support, focusing on acceptance rather than control, and integrating past experiences to build healthier future connections and self-understanding. Key steps include recognizing emotions, finding safe outlets like journaling or therapy, practicing self-care (sleep, exercise, nutrition), cultivating self-acceptance, and building strong social connections for support.
1. YOGA. Yoga is essentially a top-notch spiritual discipline that helps one achieve a harmonious union between mind and body, through controlled asanas (Yogic postures) and breathwork.
Forms of spiritual, soul, or energy healing include reiki, massage, meditation, prayer, crystal work, aromatherapy, spending time in nature, herbs and foods, communication, and more.
Mindfulness practices can help you be in the present moment and see that, at this moment, you are just fine. Allow yourself to feel the fullness of your grief, anger, pain, or loss without attaching further meaning, stories, or thoughts. This can be deeply healing and helpful in processing emotions.
But in my experience, emotional healing happens in seven stages: awareness, acceptance, processing, release, growth, integration, and transformation. We don't move through these seven stages in a straight line, but we do pass through them all eventually on the path to healing.
Be patient and loving with yourself. Mourn the losses you experience. Allow yourself to experience your feelings and memories without any judgement. Healing is an exercise in loving yourself.
Ligaments, nerves and wounds in areas with more movement heal the slowest. Injuries to these areas have a longer recovery time because of poor blood circulation and constant motion stress.
10 Self-Care Tips for Healing Through Trauma
Write in a journal, pray or use guided meditation. Or talk with a person you've found to be wise and compassionate, such as a spiritual leader, a mental health provider, or an impartial loved one or friend. Be aware that forgiveness is a process. Even small hurts may need to be revisited and forgiven again and again.
Daily Habits & Foods That Activate Your Healing Power
Small, consistent shifts in lifestyle can create powerful ripple effects on your healing capacity. Here are science-backed and Ayurvedic-recommended habits to try: Eat healing foods — opt for warm, seasonal, sattvic meals with ghee, spices and fresh produce.
There's no single "most powerful" healing herb, as different herbs excel at different things, but Turmeric (for inflammation/pain), Ashwagandha (for stress/energy), and Ginkgo Biloba (for brain health) are consistently ranked among the top for broad, potent benefits, alongside others like Ginger and Holy Basil (Tulsi) in traditional medicine systems like Ayurveda. Turmeric, with its active compound curcumin, is famous for potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, helping with arthritis and chronic pain.
When Aboriginal people did fall sick, they used plants in a variety of ways to quell their ills. Some plants, like goat's foot, were crushed, heated and applied to the skin. Others were boiled and inhaled, and occasionally drunk.
As one of the world's oldest medical systems, Ayurveda encompasses a holistic approach to healing that integrates diet, herbal remedies, yoga, meditation, and lifestyle practices. The origins of Ayurveda can be traced back to the Vedic period, a time of great intellectual and cultural flourishing in ancient India.
For others, the hardest part of healing is self-regulation, e.g. being able to manage your thoughts, feelings, and sensations. This might mean that you feel dissociated. If so, healing could involve finding ways to anchor and reconnect with yourself so that you fully feel like yourself.
While all traumas leave a profound mark on an individual's life, there's a different level of difficulty in recovering from what's called "complex trauma." Unlike single-incident traumas, complex trauma stems from repeated experiences of stressful and traumatic events, usually in environments where there's no escape.
The belief is emotions and traumatic experiences can become trapped in the body, and somatic therapy helps release this pent-up tension and emotions. Somatic therapy uses body awareness, breathwork and movement exercises to be more aware of bodily sensations and release stored emotions.
The "3 C's of Trauma" usually refer to Connect, Co-Regulate, and Co-Reflect, a model for trauma-informed care focusing on building safe relationships, helping individuals manage overwhelming emotions (co-regulation), and processing experiences (co-reflection). Other "3 C's" include Comfort, Conversation, and Commitment for children's coping, and Catch, Check, Change from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for challenging negative thoughts in trauma recovery.
Vitamin A, vitamin C and zinc help your body to repair tissue damage, fight infections, and keep your skin healthy. Try to eat foods from the lists below. Vitamin A is found in animal foods and some brightly coloured vegetables and fruits. Many vegetables and fruits are high in vitamin C.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself and tooth enamel is the hardest of all substances manufactured by the human body. Each tooth contains about 55 miles of canals for a total of over 1700 miles. There are 20 baby teeth and 32 adult teeth. False teeth are often radioactive.
When the body enters its deep sleep stage known as non-REM sleep, the pituitary gland releases growth hormones that stimulate muscle repair and growth. When the body doesn't get enough rest, the secretion of this growth hormone declines, and it can become harder for your body to recover from injuries.
The 7 key signs of emotional abuse often revolve around Control, Isolation, Verbal Attacks, Gaslighting, Blame-Shifting, Intimidation/Fear, and Invalidation, where the abuser manipulates, belittles, and controls you to undermine your self-worth and reality, making you feel constantly fearful, worthless, and dependent.
But it does provide some rough guidelines as to how soon may be too soon to make long-term commitments and how long may be too long to stick with a relationship. Each of the three numbers—three, six, and nine—stands for the month that a different common stage of a relationship tends to end.
Signs unhealed trauma is affecting your relationship
Past trauma can make relationships harder. Trauma affects relationships by often showing up as fear or mistrust, like being afraid your partner will leave or not trusting them, even if they haven't done anything wrong.