Diverse Healing Modalities = Post Traumatic Growth
October in
the Well-Being
Book Club is focused on creating on our own magic, through creativity and curiosity.
This internal well-spring will lend to feeling more empowered and resilient.
What is alchemy? Sounds witchy, right? We hear it on all our cool new witch/magic inspired shows on Netflix, no doubt it is all throughout the HP series. But what is it? I introduce this concept in the reel below, in the lens of Emotional Intelligence:
Post Traumatic Growth is really the goal of all our healing, right? To be able to alchemize all we have been through (our Sovereign phoenix story I wrote about in the previous post) to all the wisdom we currently posses. This type of consciousness shows a creative spirit, a thriving imagination, and a graceful heart. In this space we live in a growth mindset and have an abundant perspective.
So how do we get there? Some people swear by traditional talk therapy. Others may argue for Somatic healing. Some people find healing through organized religion, some find it through individualist pagan practices. Some people find a healing community through a specific type of dietary change, others preach theories from ‘intuitive eating.’ There are so many ideas out there, and some seem conflicting! What do we do with all of it?
I argue in order to get to PTG (my loving term for post traumatic growth) and to continue to grow from this healing space, we need a diverse “self healing tool kit” or tool box. Whatever metaphor works best for you. Often, life will require different strategies in different seasons. Where daily meditation may have worked in a season of questions, you may need a narrative therapy writing practice for a season of answers. It is not that one way is necessarily better than others, but which tool best fits the needs of the job. Having a variety is ideal. It makes the alchemy more likely!
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Where in your life needs the magic of alchemy?
Journal Prompts:
Where in your life is calling for more emotional intelligence?
What is one area you can challenge yourself this month to find the deeper meaning? Where can you alchemize pain to poetry, to be the Sovereign ruler over your emotional realm?
It is not denying the pain, it is trusting your own intuition to tell you the higher meaning of your experiences. You are the Conscious Narrator of your life, you decide the meaning and you remain the Hero.
