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Complex Trauma and Your Healing Journey
The Mountain is High, but the Struggle is Worth It
Everyone experiences trauma at some time in their lives. Someone dies, you have a car wreck, or some other unexpected event rocks your world. Yet, most people can move through the pain and into the future.
When complex trauma occurs in childhood, survivors are changed in numerous ways, including losing the ability to move into the future for living in the past.
Often, survivors of complex trauma feel they do not have a future because they feel they are broken or somehow ruined. Some mental health disorders are directly linked to complex trauma, and dissociative identity disorder is one of them.
This article will examine trauma and how to improve your healing journey.
The Healing Journey, What is it?
Once survivors enter therapy, they begin to walk down a path on a healing journey where the hard work lives. Complex trauma leaves deep scars that are hard to heal, but the journey down the road less taken is essential to have a healthy and happy future.
A journey takes you from one place to another, from fear to courage or from not taking good care of oneself to committing to good self-care. Therapy helps you to walk down your path, but you must…
