Alaia Bradshaw

Healing Trauma to Break Cycles

Healing Trauma to Break Cycles Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that can manifest into toxic behaviors and or experiences that can be carried with someone for years, and can also be passed down through generations if the behaviors were initiated and learned within the family construct. Trauma can manifest in many ways. The most common way we see Trauma is through irrational reactions to external stimuli such as someone expressing something that someone else may not agree with. However, Trauma can been seen in all aspects of our lives. For example, perhaps you grew up with a mother who was made fun of for being poor as a child. So as an adult, raising her children, she may have required you to be dressed to a T at all times, including being too dressed up, at the wrong times. We may not see this as Trauma at the time, until we become adults and are dressed in our Sundays best even at the grocery store. Trauma can also cause PTSD which is a Mental Illness characterized by flashbacks or constant, uncontrollable thoughts of traumatizing experiences, causing debilitating anxiety and fear of the unknown. Ultimately, Trauma is the leading cause of the pain we feel, the pain we suppress, and the pain we project on to others. Hurt people, do in fact hurt people. This means, it is every ones responsibility to heal our personal trauma to break the cycle of pain for our generations to come. How do we heal Trauma? Here are three ways to begin to heal Trauma and break cycles.