posttraumatic

Glaciers are formed when everything freezes over again and again... before you know it you’ve got a massive, thick sheet of ice that looks like one piece. But if you cut a cross section out, you can see the layers all compressed under the tremendous weight.
That’s multiple grief/trauma. You can’t just pull them off one at a time, because they’ve all become one big thing. Each event is compressed into the next to create one lengthy story.
Through therapy we can examine these layers and figure out the ones that have priority, and need urgent attention. It takes time, patience and self love to figure out how these traumas have been affected by our past, and who we will become in the future. It can take years to hash through it all, because it’s a regrowth of sorts. We cannot do this alone.
We have to reach out to professionals who can help, but we also need to be careful to maintain relationships that are healthy for our healing. We need to minimize contact with those who think we are taking too long to ‘get over it’. They just don’t understand that we want to be happy- not sweep it all under the rug. Some of us cannot do both. It takes baby steps to get there. People outside may think we aren’t making progress. What they don’t know is the fact that we keep living some days is progress!

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