What is the importance of practical energy work in trauma healing?

Complex PTSD (CPTSD) recovery strategies offer a multifaceted approach to healing from trauma, emphasizing the need for a holistic connection with the body, heart, and spirit. Tanner, an advocate of these recovery strategies, believes in the power of awareness and integration across these facets. Her perspective, shaped by personal experiences and a deep understanding of trauma, views CPTSD recovery as a journey of Self Leadership and ownership. By documenting experiences and leveraging internal wisdom, individuals can transform their lives through practical, daily actions that not only heal but also reconnect them with their spiritual essence, ultimately fostering a transformative path towards recovery.

Key TakeAways

- Unburdening trauma-carrying parts cultivates inner safety and promotes healing in daily life.

- Creating safe third spaces for protective and wounded parts to explore trauma stories is crucial for healing and growth.

- Practical energy work alongside other aspects of CPTSD recovery can help unburden individuals and connect them to their true selves.

- Protective parts aim to prevent harm and ensure survival, despite sometimes causing interpersonal challenges.

- Fear-Based Frequencies are intense energies related to trauma that go beyond protective and wounded part instincts.

- Alchemization and Transmutation involve transforming victimization energy into empowering conviction energy for healing.

- Energetic Absorption is important for maintaining balance and well-being by consciously absorbing positive and negative energies.

Actionable Insights

- Create safe third spaces for parts to tell their stories and explore trauma

- Acknowledge and work through fear-based frequencies to alchemize into light and love

- Transform victimization energy into conviction energy through alchemization and transmutation

- Master the ability to absorb energies consciously for inner harmony

- Unburden trauma-carrying parts to cultivate inner safety and promote healing

- Shift from analytical approach to trauma towards a more holistic perspective

- Understand and work with the six energies to effectively absorb energies for healing and recovery

Quotes:

“Energy work is really concrete.” — Tanner [09:48]

“There is no need for you to tell your survivor story any longer.” — Tanner [11:58]

“Your story is one of recovery, your story is one of cycle-breaking.” — Tanner [14:59]

“Energy work is a natural way to move out of thinking and analysis and more into awareness.” — Tanner [18:22]