The Voice of Trauma | The WISDOM podcast | S3 E33

<p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p style="text-align:center;">The Voice of Trauma</p> <p style="text-align:center;">The WISDOM podcast  Season 3  Episode 33</p> <p style="text-align:center;"> </p> <p style="text-align:center;">💜</p> ~ When you give your traumatic experience a voice ~ it means that you do more than retell the story or ruminate on the anxiety and fear from a victim standpoint. If you are ready to release the trauma ~ to transcend it ~ ‘it’ first needs the expression of your honesty and truth. ~   <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p>In this episode we look to the importance of giving trauma a voice; of acknowledging the hurt that has been caused to you by another and to give a compassionate and honourable voice to help others heal what trauma you have caused. </p> <p> </p> <p>“When you acknowledge your mistakes ~ particularly mistakes in which you have caused harm to another whether intentionally or unintentionally, you hold the power to help heal the relationship and the experience of another.</p> <p> </p> <p>You also free yourself from the hurt that you have caused and you create the opportunity for transformation ~ to no longer cause suffering through your words and actions.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Trauma is defined as: a hurt and a wound ~ whether emotional, physical, or psychological. The way out of trauma is through active healing and the choice to no longer live as a victim.</p> <p> </p> <p>To give trauma a voice is to acknowledge where you are in relation to your experience. Whether the trauma was fifteen years or three months earlier, it is still not of the present. It’s imprint can only cause you harm if you consciously or subconsciously continue to dwell on replaying the trauma ~ of what is the past and cannot be changed. </p> <p> </p> <p>To give a traumatic situation a voice ~ is to acknowledge what wrong doing you are responsible for. </p> <p> </p> <p align="center">For example, if you lose control of your emotions and react with anger and this anger escalates further in your conflict int