You are not broken, your body and nervous system are just working tirelessly to protect you.

We all have experienced Trauma at some level, either in our childhood, teenage life or early adulthood. Understanding Trauma as an unprocessed response that gets stored in our bodies and minds, to certain events that go beyond our coping and understanding abilities.

This energy, is stored as tension and contraction in our physical body and it can also manifest as various mental and emotional ailments. And the main reason why is stored is because our inability to bring ourselves into a place of safety after those events happened, so we entered a place where our overprotective parts are activated and they start working hard enough to keep us safe.

These parts are trying to help you. They don’t know that what happened in the past is over. They think it’s still happening now, and they create a beautiful self-protective circuit that  includes feelings, sensations, behaviors and thoughts, all working together to keep you alive.

How amazing is that!
Is like having your own private security system taking care of you 24/7.

Every single part of you is working together to protect you and help you go through challenges.
Every single part of you is devoted to you. Even when you struggle to love yourself or you feel that you do not want to keep going, your Autonomic Nervous System Loves you and will always be there to protect you.

When trauma occurs your priority is survival, so every other function in your system will shut down until you are happily safe. Connection, digestion, creativity, even your immune system, everything that is not helping you to survive will be left aside. And it can keep going for years or decades until we bring awareness to our survival states and release that energy that has been stuck from past experiences.

Our healing journey is to show our nervous system that those threats from the past are  no longer existing in the present.

I want to remind you today that there is nothing wrong with you, you are not dysfunctional, you are not broken… 

Your system is working hard to protect you, and with the proper work and guidance you can retrain it to Thrive instead Survive.