015 | Be Patient with Your Healing Journey
If you’re just beginning your journey through healing trauma, you might find yourself wanting it just to be over so you can get back to your life as soon as you can. I was there when I started my own deep trauma therapy as a patient. It felt like my progress was incremental - so small, in fact, it felt like I barely made progress at all. Conversations with my therapist felt like it hardly made any forward movement. I wanted everything faster.
You know what’s fascinating? I don’t know if it’s ever over, but at this stage of my healing process, I want to take things slowly.
In this episode, I share the seventh rule of the Trauma Hiders Club: Be patient with your healing journey. I explain why I want to slow down my healing journey and describe how - especially at the beginning of my process - I felt like my conversations with my therapist yielded little progress. I also discuss how, in your own journey, you’ll sometimes feel like you’re moving backward instead of progressing forward and explain why you’d want to stay in every moment of the ride towards your healing.
“Be on the ride, be on the journey. Be in it for the long game because this is for life.”
- Karen Goldfinger Baker
This week on the Trauma Hiders Club Podcast:
The seventh rule of the Trauma Hiders Club
Dealing with impatience at the start of my healing journey
How every moment spent in healing makes huge pay-offs
Why I want to take my journey slowly at this stage of my trauma therapy