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Message of Healing
I do not consider myself completely healed yet. Healing, for me, is not a moment where everything that happened disappears or where the pain no longer exists. I am still living through the aftermath of years of abuse. I am still fighting for my children. I am still navigating the legal process that stands between us and the safe future I am working toward. I am still learning how to live with the effects of trauma and PTSD. But my understanding of healing has changed. I no longer believe healing means that I will never hurt again. I believe healing means that, even while I carry wounds, I continue moving forward. My faith has been a major part of that journey. As a Christian, I believe that God was with me even in the moments when I felt completely alone. There were times when I felt abandoned, when I did not understand why I was going through so much, and when I questioned how I could keep going. But looking back, I can see moments where I was given strength when I did not think I had any left. My healing has not been about pretending the pain did not happen. It has been about trusting that my story does not end with what was done to me. I believe God gave me the strength to protect my children, to keep fighting, and to continue standing when I felt like I was broken. I believe that my life still has purpose, and that the years I spent surviving do not define the rest of my story. Healing has meant learning that I am worthy of love, respect, and safety. It has meant allowing myself to accept help after years of believing I had to carry everything alone. It has meant rebuilding my confidence, rediscovering who I am, and understanding that I am not only a survivor of what happened—I am also a mother, a woman, a daughter, and a person with a future. I am still healing. I am still fighting. I am still learning. But I am not the same person I was when I was trapped in fear. My faith reminds me that God can bring beauty from broken places. It reminds me that suffering is not the end of the story. It reminds me that even in the hardest seasons, I am not walking alone. To me, healing is not forgetting the past. Healing is allowing God to use my story for something greater. Healing is choosing hope even while I am still in the middle of the battle. Healing is believing that what was meant to destroy me will not have the final word.
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Grounding activity
Find a comfortable place to sit. Gently close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths - in through your nose (count to 3), out through your mouth (count of 3). Now open your eyes and look around you. Name the following out loud:
5 – things you can see (you can look within the room and out of the window)
4 – things you can feel (what is in front of you that you can touch?)
3 – things you can hear
2 – things you can smell
1 – thing you like about yourself.
Take a deep breath to end.
From where you are sitting, look around for things that have a texture or are nice or interesting to look at.
Hold an object in your hand and bring your full focus to it. Look at where shadows fall on parts of it or maybe where there are shapes that form within the object. Feel how heavy or light it is in your hand and what the surface texture feels like under your fingers (This can also be done with a pet if you have one).
Take a deep breath to end.
Ask yourself the following questions and answer them out loud:
1. Where am I?
2. What day of the week is today?
3. What is today’s date?
4. What is the current month?
5. What is the current year?
6. How old am I?
7. What season is it?
Take a deep breath to end.
Put your right hand palm down on your left shoulder. Put your left hand palm down on your right shoulder. Choose a sentence that will strengthen you. For example: “I am powerful.” Say the sentence out loud first and pat your right hand on your left shoulder, then your left hand on your right shoulder.
Alternate the patting. Do ten pats altogether, five on each side, each time repeating your sentences aloud.
Take a deep breath to end.
Cross your arms in front of you and draw them towards your chest. With your right hand, hold your left upper arm. With your left hand, hold your right upper arm. Squeeze gently, and pull your arms inwards. Hold the squeeze for a little while, finding the right amount of squeeze for you in this moment. Hold the tension and release. Then squeeze for a little while again and release. Stay like that for a moment.
Take a deep breath to end.