Trauma
Trauma. Pretty much everyone has it. It causes body and mind disfunction, dis/ease and damages relationships because of unpacked baggage.
More and more research is showing that you can relieve yourself of the damage that goes along with traumatic events by going back in your mind and creating a writing protocol where you get it out by journaling on your traumatic event(s) every day for at least 15 minutes at a time.
This trauma journaling protocol can help with sleep, boost immune system, anxiety relief, cure or alleviate illness, and, ultimately, free yourself from the pain and damage the trauma causes. The act of confronting your trauma in itself requires courage.
Sounds too ideal, I know. But, on a personal note, I will say that when I had cancer one of the multi-pronged protocols I used was journaling. It is in part what started this ‘healing journal’ on Medium, however, I soon found there were too many things I wanted to say to myself and not to the public.
It was messy and explorative. It was a lot of starting and stopping. I would re-read and revise and work out ideas. It certainly wasn’t linear.
I mean, why would anyone want to return to that space psychically ever? It sucked the first time. Hateful and horrible. Trauma is a thing that strips a person of their agency and of their being. As a matter of self protection, many people have described it as ‘leaving their body’. Nobody, I mean nobody, wants to be a ‘Survivor of Trauma’.
One thing that becomes very clear is that time does not stop for your trauma. Maybe you want it to — so you can process what the heck is going on. But it does not.
Rather it takes your life because all those moments you spend trying to figure it out, all those moments you try to forget, all those moments where you ruined relationships is the trauma working itself out.
So, confront it. What more damage can you do to yourself? Chances are time will not stop for you when your confront it either. Time. Marches. On.
Brutal.
Even though it was a few years ago now, I will say I believe it contributed to the disappearance of my illness. I went back just shy of 18 months for a CAT scan and blood work and the oncologist found no cancer. She still offered me surgery ‘just in case it comes back’, but I declined that also.
Of course there were many other things I did besides journaling.
My daily routine included: fresh organic vegetable and green apple juice, meditation, listening to healing frequencies, staying positive, journaling, reading and research, consuming Hippocrates soup, taking supplements, and abstaining from alcohol and animal products.
I mostly followed Dr. Dean Ornish who has a book called Undo It!, Gerson Therapy, and Dr. Gerger who has a book called How Not to Die… both Dr. Ornish and Dr. Greger were featured in the Game Changers film. The film isn’t how I had heard about these guys — but I was glad it came out. Even though it seems like vegans and vegetarians are trending now, they are still such a small percentage of the population.
