Blocking your pain isn’t healing.
We like to box up and put away our pain and trouble, but we don’t realize the damage they cause.
That pain and trouble are stored all in the soul, which then reflects on our body.
In childhood, you trained yourself to block and suppress due to a lack of emotional support and emotional neglect. Blocking became comfortable, and it has helped you survive so far – but it’s hurting you and causing you back pain.
Emotional constipation occurs when you store up feelings rather than releasing them. For instance, childhood trauma at times trains you to suppress your emotions due to fear of showing expression in the home as a youth or adolescent.
Consider this. Do you struggle with not feeling? Has it been years since you cried? Most of the time, do you feel numb and empty? Are you simply existing or truly living? If the answer is yes, then you are suffering from emotional constipation.
You are not a robot.
Dissociation occurs when you experience so much childhood trauma that you completely disconnect yourself from your childhood.
This is dangerous, and you feel like you are okay. But you are not satisfied with life; you hang around others for a facade, but alone, you feel disconnected.
Everything is temporal, and you are never able to enjoy much in the world.
You might say to yourself, “I don’t remember anything.” That’s dissociation!
Release your emotions and remember the trauma.
Individual counseling offers an opportunity to express your innermost feelings and release what you have blocked for so long. In the space I offer, there is no criticism – only support and understanding.
Blocking that trauma causes depression, anxiety, loneliness, and emptiness. When we work together, my role is to try to understand the trauma you have blocked through unhealthy coping mechanisms.
When we identify the source of your emotional trauma, I will provide you with tools to help you cope and overcome the trauma’s impact. This will help you release those hidden emotions and put them behind you so that you can move forward with confidence.
Are you ready to heal and move forward?
Individual counseling provides you with an opportunity to finally deal with what keeps you stuck.
Together, we can work to help you express how you feel and move forward with your life.
For more information on how I can help, please get in touch with me today.