Essay

Healing From Trauma

By: Jan Marquart,

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“The unwanted stressful and traumatic journeys women live through do not go away or heal on their own. These unwanted journeys leave them feeling broken, enduring haunting memories, cause health disrupting symptoms, and often shame them into believing that they must endure and suffer in silence. Women can reach out to their mothers for help but chances are their mothers don’t know what kind of advice to offer their daughters because they too are victims.

Physicians don’t usually ask women if they are suffering from trauma or repeated abuse when they appear in their offices yet the body can experience up to 1500 different physiological health symptoms due to stress and nothing is more stressful than abuse and trauma. Symptoms that have an emotional foundation must be dealt with for what they are. Too many women swallow medications when what they really need is to go within and sort out the cause of their suffering. It is easy to avoid taking needed actions for self-care because women are busy being mothers, wives, employees, and their belief systems about enduring for the sake of those they love run deep. How often I’ve heard women brag about having broad shoulders then take their suffering to secret corners inside themselves and collapse. Women don’t like admitting they are angry, full of rage, hurt, sad, depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, need help, or simply fed up. They are quick to offer forgiveness for others while feeling guilt and shame against themselves.

What women need is a safe and protected place to surrender to what is taking place deep inside. But where do they go to get comfort, clarity, and healing for the suffering in their lives? Where do they have time and support to face their wounds and nurture themselves back to stability, health and happiness? And how do go about setting their vision on a new path?”

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