Can Your Trauma Break Your Soul?
Spiritual Prompts 5/29 thru 6/4
“Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected.”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing
When you think of the things you lose when you have suffered trauma our souls are not top of that list. Why is it so affected? Your soul is where beauty, dreams, and a sense of self live. In the throes of abuse, these are the things that are ripped from us. Our abusers make it their business to ensure we are lost, and unable to find ourselves. Or they make sure we believe what we are deep inside is wrong or dirty.
Once destroyed, we lose sight of who we are. That once gentle voice from our soul is replaced by an evil one in our brain. Once the brain takes over, positive thoughts will be few and far between. Forget dreams your brain will make you feel there is no point.
Trauma needs you to believe you are a piece of shit deserving of everything you are getting. It requires a belief there is no way forward for you because you are evil. Trauma seeks to destroy your soul due to the realisation it can restore you. Trauma can’t have that. The pounding your soul endures should be enough to destroy it but it never does. It…
