You are an artist! No matter how many people reject you or do not choose you for a project, keep making art. It can be so challenging to continue to create and perform when we don’t receive the sweet nectar of validation, but as humans, we were born to express ourselves through creativity. Trauma therapy can help with our reactions to creative rejection. When we dig deeper and find the roots of our reactions, we can unwind the pain and be released from the pull of our extreme emotions.

Our energetic field protects us from the outside world, and gives us the radiance that highlights the gifts we bring to the world. When we have a protective and clear energy field around us, the possibilities in our life expand.

Anahata Chakra is an energy center that is necessary for trauma healing. When we are able to reach our resource of compassion in the heart, we can finally give those wounded parts of ourselves the love we always needed. When we realize that we deserve unconditional love (because we do), we deepen our ability to live in this world with a sense of meaning.

Exploring the Chakra system through visualization and physical sensation can help us notice where we are misaligned, and gain further insight into our traumas. Through this meditative practice, we can unravel the “knots” of trauma that collect in our body/mind/spirit. 

When we have experienced any sort of trauma or upsetting situation, we are yearning for a way to process these emotions and let them go. Pendulation is the practice of moving between pleasant and unpleasant feelings to shift smoothly in the numerous transitions we will encounter throughout our lives.

For all performers out there, most of us have experienced some form of anxiety or unpleasant tension before we perform. Sometimes we have reached a place where we are stuck or plateaued in our creative art. The therapeutic practice of EMDR (Eye movement desensitization reprocessing) can help to move these creative blockages through.

With the already distracting environment of performance, it is essential to process our trauma, performance related and otherwise. It is then that we can step into the true presence of our art. When we process our past traumas, small or large, subtle or overt, we free up space to alchemize our anxious energy to excitement.

Healing from trauma with the help of nature offers a vital partnership to traditional therapy approaches. When you've experienced trauma, your nervous system can remain over-activated, making it difficult to feel safe.