The first sign of emotional healing
ACCEPTANCE
What is emotional healing
I find to better understand what emotional healing is, first we know about what emotional healing is NOT.
⛔️ Emotional healing is not getting rid of negative emotions like fear, anger, shame, regret etc.
⛔️ Emotional healing is not trying to willpower your focus towards positive thinking.
⛔️ Emotional healing is definitely not trying to change the people who had hurt you in the first place, to get them to see how much they have wronged you, and to somehow invoke remorse with an apology that makes everything better happily ever after.
Emotional healing to me is about reconnecting with the parts of yourself that you had lost/rejected/abandoned/shamed/disconnected from during the painful experiences, and in doing so remembering the wholeness that you are.
3 signs you're on the right path
1. Awareness – that something isn't quite right about the way you feel. Or the way your life is. Something's off, out of balance, you simply haven't felt good in a while.
2. Acceptance – that a 'bad' experience happened to you, or, that you went through a painful period. When you accept that the heartbreak/abuse/trauma/injustice happened, you will no longer act like it didn't change you from that moment on. Cuz, it did change you!
3. Acknowledge – the emotions you feel that's associated with that experience. Emotions are the language of the heart and soul. Learn to speak it. Explore the recurring theme in your life, what flavour of emotions swirl beneath most experiences. Practice writing down a list of emotions tied to triggering experiences.
Benefits of emotional healing
Of course, these are very simplified first steps, but it's a start. And I guide clients through the whole process again and again, so their heightened awareness brings them closer to consciously change a once deeply ingrained unconscious patterning in their life.
You might not like the pain that you're in, but maybe you're afraid to work on emotional healing because you worry what you might uncover in the process.
For me, the catalyst to emotional healing was when I felt I had nothing to lose anymore. Meaning, the pain of remaining stuck in the unhealthy loop seemed as painful as the risk of change.
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