Bad Childhood Memories
I’ve taken on the challenge of writing a brief note on
self-help strategies for self-care surrounding childhood trauma. When I notice
a trend in my clients’ sittings, I feel called to share a collective message,
as we are all healing for ourselves but also for each other.
Sometimes our subconscious brings up hurtful memories from
our childhoods, sometimes for healing, but taken too far, our thoughts and our
moods self-sabotage all we could be experiencing today.
So I have a three step process for you to try out.
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Feel your feelings and let them go. Feelings are
here to serve us, the more we avoid and push them away, we invite them to come
back with a vengeance. Feel, cry, journal, and try to take responsibility for
accepting what has happened. Letting go can be really difficult, and my advice
as a reader is to use a visualization technique where you envision that load
you are carrying, for an example, a suitcase, put it on the side of the road,
thank it for all it has taught you and keep walking.
If you are reliving experiences that were harmful
and hurtful to you as a child, and you are re-playing the movie in your mind,
you can go back in time in your mind, and say out loud ‘cancel, cancel, cancel’.
As you allow yourself to relive these feelings repeatedly you are being as
hurtful to yourself as the original perpetrator.
My third tip to overcoming reliving trauma is to
tap into your divinity using your mind’s eye. Imagine an image that reminds you
of joy and peace in your life. My image is ‘pink roses’. When I think of ‘pink
roses’ it takes me back to my Oma's garden, and all the love and joy from those
memories instantly call me back to love and light. I keep this image in my back
pocket for emergencies, when I feel like my vibration is down or memories from
past experiences come back in a way that is not serving.
A final note I will leave you with
is a popular quote from the internet, “You are not a tree, if you don’t like
where you are leave”. I know this is easier said than done, but if you for
whatever reason got yourself into a bad situation, you can get yourself out, I
believe in you. This includes what you allow yourself to think about. Thank-you
for doing the important work you’ve been called to do. 3581
