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What is a Sign You Have Overcome Your Trauma?
When the healing begins, not ends, is when you will know if you’re paying attention.
Your trauma is what shapes you into the person you are attempting to be. Not sure we ever overcome it. It’s always in us, somewhere, lying dormant, listening, feeling, watching, breathing. It’s ready to pounce when called upon. It’s when the calling happens and how you handle it is what matters.
I hate what I went through when I was a kid, and I hate what I went through as an adult. But guess what? I’m more in control of my self now than when I was a kid, by control, I mean with decisions and choices.
Many times my decisions and choices are made with the trauma responses I have learned as coping mechanisms over the years.
You begin to realize you have put your trauma to “bed” by the way you begin handling situations differently. And the more important thing is, many you spend time with will see the changes in you. What they see could be good, or bad, depending if boundaries are involved.
When boundaries are involved, you could upset someone, but that doesn’t mean you “aren’t” healing. It could mean you are being shown who to rid out of your life.
