Healing trauma is the road less travelled

If you suffered what should not have happened in the first place, it’s understandable to have ventured down some wide road to destruction for a time.  That’s the typical way it is.

Addiction is one of those roads commonly travelled outbound of trauma.  Resentment is another, and so too is being triggered into many other places of being none of us want to arrive at.

Healing trauma is the road less travelled.  But it takes a while to understand that it’s there, that it’s passable, that it’s even attractive.  Then it takes a while for us to decide it really is the wise way.  Then it takes a while to pluck up the will to cross over toward it for a quick reconnaissance.  Some time is spent scouting out that route to see if it really is worth it.

There’s a lot to give up, but if we’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, that’s usually enough to convince us.

Healing trauma is a road less travelled because it’s hard.  It promises a reward, but actually driving the road is done by faith with no sign of the reward in sight.  If anything, it involves significantly more pain than reward because truth is faced, and these truths are ugly realities.  But to find ourselves on the road less travelled is amply worth it.

Healing trauma is a road less travelled because it involves us bearing our cross.  And in gospel terms, we can only be resurrected if we die first.  Healing trauma is hence about dying to the self that dissociates from our pain, dying to the self that resists truth, and dying to the self that prefers comfort at any cost.

Healing trauma is the means to abundant life because there’s no access to this road less travelled without having opened eternity’s door in reconciling that past that would haunt us if it weren’t healed.  And though healing is a process, God is good to give us candidacy for healing even as we take that first step in faith that we’ll keep walking that road.

Healing trauma is the road less travelled because it reconciles that addiction is a cover for the pain we cannot face.  Having faced those demons, and with the addictions overcome, a commitment to recovery becomes the work of healing.  And honest humility paves the way with each brick steadily laid down upon that road.

Healing trauma is the road less travelled because so relatively few engage in that work.  Yet it’s a path anyone can take, and it’s the means to the life we’ve all wanted to live, given that the trauma we’ve lived with was there from such a long time ago without our consent.

Healing trauma, therefore, is the mind agreeing with the body that the evidence is clear; this must be dealt with to live anything close to the life we were destined to live.

Healing trauma is the road less travelled but it ought to be a super highway for all to traverse.

Healing trauma is the opportunity of a lifetime – our lifetime.  It’s the road less travelled because many people choose to ignore the opportunity to live without regret.  To heal trauma is to arrive at a humble acceptance for our life and what it has become, and though there may have been regrets, healing sees to it that there are no longer any regrets.  This is a state of living.