Healing Process Vs Prescriptions

Through my personal journey. This is what I went on and this is the healing process that I used versus prescriptions.

Prescriptions may be necessary and it’s something to definitely talk with a doctor about encourage somebody to talk to but understand there’s a bigger picture here. There’s a bigger picture called the healing process. Prescriptions are something where somebody comes in. They say I’m depressed. The doctor says okay, here you go.

Here’s a prescription vs the healing process. There’s truly a journey where there are multiple inputs, multiple tools, multiple things needed for somebody to heal from trauma and to feel amazing to let the past be the past and to be in the present moment to move and to move their life forward.

So, the first step on this healing process is awareness that you’re just not feeling the same you. You don’t feel good. You got anxiety depression whatever just not feeling good and don’t know what to call it then I say: There’s a desire to heal and fight or give up we talk about yin and yang, good and bad, heaven and hell. Everybody talks about all these different things. Understand that, there’s a force far greater than the academic stuff and the research that we talk about. There are true forces out there in life that throughout history, throughout philosophy, throughout everything. People have talked about this as true so in our modern world, we can kind of think this doesn’t apply but I’m here to tell you, it does apply.

There is a desire to heal and fight to have that awakening to move forward or to give up and we see what happens when people give up, they either stay the same or they live a life of a passive suicide where they’re waiting to die or they end up taking their own life from there for that person to say: Ok, yes, I want to fight. I want to heal then counseling is usually the first step and with counseling with trauma therapy. It’s very important that somebody has access to somebody trained in EMDR.

EMDR is an eye movement desensitizing technique that therapists use and not every counselor is trained in this so this is why it’s important to vet the counselors who you have in your EAP program because if you don’t and somebody goes to a junior counselor, just out of the counseling program odds are that person is not going to be able to help that person with trauma at the level that person needs. So EMDR is very important and it’s something to research and ask your EAP who in there is trained in EMDR. We want a list of all these people within a 90, 90-mile radius of us talk it out in counseling, talk therapy is very important. Cognitive behavioral therapy is often used and then from there people feel that they have a plateau but they’re just not getting better, they’re not fixed in the sense then when it comes to that there are great programs out there.

Experiential trauma programs where people actually meet with other people who have gone through trauma. These programs can be anywhere from five days to 30 days and they are wonderful programs in addition to experiential trauma programs there’s somatic experiencing the body has the SOMA in the body. The way the nervous system is the way trauma gets stored in the body so somatic experiencing is very helpful for people who have already talked about the traumas at length but yet, they still have bad feelings in their body. They don’t feel good in their body and somatic experiencing is a wonderful tool for people to start relieving that trauma to feel better environments to reduce sensory triggers and different things.

Exercise is very important reading so when people say hey, I need to go for a walk at work and they’re going through something please be supportive of that. It’s extremely important if they need to take a 20-minute walk and reset or meditate.

It’s very, very important that somebody’s going through the trauma healing process, coaching community, spirituality yoga meditation, hypnosis nutrition and accountability were a lot of things kind of on the final side of my healing process and they’re very important so understand that, there are a lot of tools that people can draw from also some of these things are costly so for people that maybe don’t have the money, how can they be supported to use some of these tools right where yoga may cost not a yoga studio, that’s more calming than in gym, yoga you know gym, yoga is very fast and more about a workout versus a yoga studio that might have some candles calm music things like that. That are very safe feeling for that person those courses yoga class could be maybe $25 – $30 for a drop-in session in an urban environment so how can people pay for these things. It’s very important to think about that because if people are doing the work and they want to get better.

Sometimes they need support in different ways so it’s important to think about as a manager, I personally have actually paid for other people when they’ve gone through challenging times and they didn’t have the money. I’ve done that. It’s just who I am because I know what. It’s like and I know that that person is doing the best they can and if I give them a couple hundred dollars to go to some yoga classes or set them on a retreat you know and introduce them to the retreat people that I know they’re going to be in a lot better place so the emails that I get when people go through the healing process and when they do these different things. It’s really amazing to see the change in people’s lives how that impacts them if they have families how it impacts their families.

So, the healing process is very in-depth versus a one-time prescription.