The type of mindset that can keep you stuck, delaying your healing

I recently had a friend share that she keeps on grabbing any tools she can, so that “she could release these traumas from her body”. And she has been discovering that many of these tools are harmful to her and that she finds it difficult to gauge the difference between a good and a harmful tool.

This vulnerable share reminded me of how in the healing industry is extremely common to see so many people talking in terms of “ trauma release.”

This could be a selling tactic keeping you stuck, buying products and courses for years trying to “get rid of” trauma in the body.
Or a lack of knowledge in the subject. Or perhaps a lack of precise language.

In reality there is no such a thing as “releasing trauma”.

Healing is a dynamic process. When we employ the mindset of “release” we, automatically and unconsciously, start chasing some impossible resolution of a 100% “release”.

In trauma resolution there is a reorganisation within an organism that has developed many intelligent defensive accommodations. If we aimed to “release trauma” it would also mean getting rid of everything that means to be you, all the experiences that shaped you. All the clever adaptations.

The body is not capable of releasing trauma, as many like to imply.

The whole mind/body system is craving for orderly guidance and nourishment.

Instead of “releasing” or “getting rid of”, your system is looking for gentle reorganisation of patterns.
All this is done organically, respecting your defensive accommodations.

“Releasing” is a harsh impossibility. In contrast, orderly reorganisation is a welcoming change for a system that has mostly known chaos, dis- order and dys-function.

How has the conceptualisation of the term “releasing trauma” been landing for you in your healing journey?