Encountering grief on your healing journey

For those of us who have gone through trauma, especially developmental trauma, at some point in the healing journey you may encounter deep grief.

You may grieve the decades of constant struggle, feel the deep sadness for not having a safe home growing up. Regretting the “missing” time and opportunities in life. Wishing things had been different.

This is a natural stage of your healing journey and it will not last forever. This phase may be painful, but it is what gives you the base for eventually accepting and honouring your life story.

If you are going through this now, please know that you are not alone. Know that it’s ok to feel the gaping hole of not having the optimal support growing up and having to figure things out from a fragmented place.

This pain when faced and felt with the right support and tools will naturally build up more resilience in your system.

And you might even be surprised to find glimpses of gratitude amidst the pain.

You eventually realise from an embodied place, that despite all the difficulties and heartbreak you made it! You are here to tell the story and with more resilience in your system you are able to write the next chapter of your life from a place of clarity, resilience and intention.