CCChat-Magazine_Issue-19

" I have spent a long time, after leaving,
reconnecting to who I am. “
M: Is this the direction you were headed
in anyway, or has it come about as a
result of getting out of the domestic
abuse?
S: It really wasn’t the direction I was
going to go in, to be honest. When I
escaped, I had no idea which direction my
life was going to go in. I just wrote down,
the word ‘happy’on a piece of paper that I
carried with me all the time. It’s all I’ve
ever wanted to feel. I was in so much
emotional pain. When I left, my focus was
on trying to recover from the impact and
surviving the ongoing abuse. I had no
idea that it would lead me to write my
story, which would get published, which
would then lead on to creating the
journal. I have spent a long time, after
leaving, reconnecting to who I am.
I have spent the last ten years dedicating
myself to myself and understanding who I
am and trying to live a life that I’ve always
wanted and it’s led me down the road in
training to become a counsellor.
I read a book about somatic therapy and
this is an area I’m particularly keen on.
I’m drawn to it because it goes into
an holistic area and talks about how
trauma gets frozen in our neurological
system and how years down the line, this
trauma can just defrost and as a result the
trauma comes up to the surface, and
that’s what somatic therapy looks at and
it guides you through the trauma to bring
some resolution. This really resonates
with me.
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