It’s the same for any trauma – there is only one way to heal it, and that’s to speak about all it makes you feel.
There isn’t much else you can do once the physical healing has been done other than speak about all your bad feelings. With any trauma, the greatest part is the emotional, mental, spiritual and psychic (etheric) pain one experiences, that which can remain forever if nothing is done about it. And what can you do? Speak about it, about all you’re feeling about it. And keep on speaking about it until there is simply no more to speak about. Something which can possibly take years to do. If you don’t speak about it, it will fester away inside you until such pain builds forcing you to one day break and speak about it.
So you decide that the only way you’re going to heal all you’ve suffered is to speak about every bad feeling that comes up to do with it. And so naturally you’ll need someone to speak to – a friend. And a willing friend, someone who wants to hear about all your suffering. But what do you do when you don’t have such a person in your life? All you can do it want such a person, and think and feel and in some way try to express all you feel about it, about not having such a person. And one day I’d like to imagine there will be volunteer ‘friends’, people willing and wanting to listen. But in the meantime, I guess you’ll just have to do the best you can, using professional counsellors and therapists if you afford them. And although writing about all you feel is a poor alternative, I find it a great help in allowing me to accept all I feel and not push the bad feelings aside so easily. But at some stage, you’ve got to speak about all you feel.
You need a lot of help, and it’s going to take a long time, and there will be lots to speak about. A hell of a lot. And if your traumas are from your early childhood, then there will be a huge amount of hidden repressed bad feelings all of which will have to come out if you want to heal it all.
But where do you begin, as you can’t just say, right, today I will speak about my early childhood trauma and how bad I feel about it all, and there it all is, all the bad feelings ready and waiting for you to start talking about them. But there will be some bad feelings associated with it, so this is where you begin, you start talking about them.
And you start talking about them in a meaningful way. You speak about seriously wanting to find out and understand all about your pain: why you are suffering, why it was done to you, and how it all came about. You talk about it desiring – longing – to know ALL about it – the whole TRUTH of it.
So you now have a purpose to speak about your pain and bad feelings. You have a goal, something to aim for: the truth of what happened to you. It’s not enough to just say, I want to talk about it so I can heal it. The uncovering of and finding out about the truth of it all IS the healing.
The healing is done, and the pain will leave you, ONLY WHEN YOU FIND THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS CAUSING THE PAIN.
And to find the truth you will need to speak about every little aspect of it. And to do this you will have to pay attention to all your bad feelings and speak about them all as you feel them.
Your bad feelings are your way into the truth – into the TRUTH OF YOURSELF.
And to want to uncover the truth of yourself means you might have to face some tough, ugly, stuff about yourself and your relationship with your parents or early carers who have traumatised you. But you just have to keep speaking about it all – all the bad feelings. And the deeper and more significant your trauma, the longer and the more bad feelings hidden away inside you there will be waiting to come out.
And in a way, having a trauma that keeps making you feel bad, that unhinges you keeping you from so-called normal life, can even be seen as a good thing, as it will give you a specific focus and way into your past, allowing you to uncover the truth of your pain, evolve your conscious awareness of yourself and the truth of your early relationships. For people who don’t have such ongoing pain gnawing away at them, who believe they are relatively okay in life, it will be much harder to go back into their early childhood and see what terrors they are covering up. And the terrors will be there even though they might not feel traumatised.
And how you speak about your bad feelings matters too.
You need to express them by really putting yourself in them and trying to allow ‘them’ to speak. You try to emote the pain, you try to allow the pain to express itself, to come out and put itself into words. As you speak you focus on nothing other than your bad feelings, you let them consume you, you BE them, you submit to them, you sink into them, or bring them up all around and in you. (And if you are worried that your horrible feelings will overwhelm you, destroy you, sending you into madness if you finally let go, so long as you’re speaking about all such fears, and always longing to uncover the truth of them, as hard as it will be, you will be okay.) And you use your feeling expression to block out your mind, to stop all thoughts and any justifications or rationalisations you might have that your mind presents to you trying to stop you feel and speak about your bad feelings.
If you commit yourself to speaking about all the bad feelings you feel related to your trauma, life will present you with all the opportunities you’ll need to stir up your hidden bad feelings, all so you can express them.
The uncovering of the truth of your trauma to heal it, is a whole journey in and of itself, as those who have done it will testify. It’s not like taking a pill and the pain magically goes away. It’s a laborious process because it involves all aspects of yourself, namely the many beliefs and behaviours all of which constitute the fabric of your being. You suffered a lot of pain and bad feeling as the trauma happened, and it might have happened over years, so you have formed about it, it is a part of you. So to go back into it, to unwind and bring to light your relationship with it, is going to be very challenging as your bad feelings take you into looking at all the negative ‘circuitry’ within you. And to ‘reprogram’ yourself will be very hard, but will naturally occur (you won’t have to do anything with your mind to make it happen) as the truth is revealed.
And mostly it’s a highly personal journey, one another person can’t understand or fully relate to because they didn’t experience your trauma. So you will feel very alone at times, but such feelings are yet more bad feelings to speak about, and so on it goes, endlessly speaking about your bad feelings.
But what else can you do?
Never underestimate the importance of speaking about how bad you feel. It is the way and the key to help and heal yourself. And it’s the only thing you’ve got that you can do to help yourself. Speak!


