Recovery from Traumatic Events

How can you bounce back from traumatic events?

Experiencing a traumatic event is one thing. Reexperiencing it in living color for the next 50 years by endlessly rehearsing it to yourself and anyone else who will listen is quite another. The more emotive your presentation, the more the traumatic event is fixed in living memory. Some try to repress the memory, but the pain will leak out in other areas of your life. My brain’s opinion is it takes bravery to deal with past traumatic events in a healthy and functional manner. Tell your story to a competent trauma counselor and/or wise trusted friend. Be open to feed back about what you can learn from it or how to prevent a reoccurrence (if at all possible), and then let it go. It’s a done deal. You can’t go back and prevent it. You can’t pretend it didn’t happen. Acknowledge that the traumatic event happened, and then work through the grieving process.  More tomorrow.