Healing the Nervous System After Trauma, + Trauma Not Seen As Such
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By Shaman Isis
Spiritual Teacher | Consciousness Advocate | Lover of Divine Truth
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Let’s talk about something deeply personal and universally needed: healing your nervous system after trauma. Most people don’t realize their nervous system is holding the echo of every storm they’ve weathered, both loud and silent. For years, I thought that being able to function and have a business meant that I had weathered repeated trauma like a champ. It took failure at one of my projects to come face to face with the fact that I was carrying around a lot of pain. The best thing I have ever done for myself and now my clients is to work on healing my nervous system, an ongoing process.
Your nervous system is like a tuning fork for your life. If it’s vibrating with fear, hypervigilance, or shutdown, your thoughts, actions, and even relationships will reflect that. Trauma, whether a tidal wave or a slow leak, alters your baseline of safety. But here’s the truth: you can heal, you can reset your nervous system, and you can reclaim peace as your default frequency.
What Counts as Trauma?
When people hear “trauma,” they often think of war, abuse, or significant accidents. Yes, those are trauma. But trauma is anything your nervous system didn’t feel equipped to handle in the moment.
Traumas We Commonly Recognize:
Physical abuse or assault
Emotional neglect or abandonment
Smexual trauma
Natural disasters or accidents
War or violence exposure
Loss of a loved one
Traumas We Often Overlook:
Bullying, childhood, or adulthood
Financial instability or housing insecurity
Racism, sexism, or discrimination
Medical trauma or chronic illness
Growing up with a mentally ill or addicted parent
Being “the strong one” who never got to fall apart
Spiritual betrayal or religious abuse
Loneliness and emotional starvation
Even prolonged stress, like living in survival mode for years, can traumatize the nervous system.
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So, How Do We Heal?
Healing your nervous system is not about perfection or pretending it never happened. It’s about retraining your body to believe that safety is possible, again and again. Here’s where to begin:
1. Breathwork, Your Reset Button
Start with just three deep, intentional breaths every morning. Slowly inhale through your nose for four counts, hold for four, and exhale through your mouth for six. Repeat. Breath tells the brain, I’m safe.
2. Yoga Nidra or Body Scanning
This practice changed my life. Even when I couldn’t meditate, I could lie down and allow my body to rewire itself. Yoga Nidra puts your body into a deeply healing state, allowing the parasympathetic system to recalibrate.
3. Soothing Daily Rituals
Warm baths, feet in the grass, drinking tea slowly, soft instrumental music. Ritual regulates. Nourishment doesn’t need to be grand, it just needs to be consistent.
4. Create Felt Safety
Wear soft clothes. Stay away from chaotic spaces. Be near people who don’t activate your defenses. Set boundaries like your peace depends on it, because it does.
5. Express and Release
Unprocessed emotions live in the body. Journal, dance it out, paint, scream into a pillow if needed. Let your body speak so it no longer has to scream through illness or exhaustion.
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Your Healing is a Revolution
When you commit to healing your nervous system, you’re not just helping yourself, you’re shifting timelines. You’re breaking cycles. You’re telling the Universe, I choose peace. I choose life. I choose myself.
So start small. Be gentle. Your nervous system didn’t get dysregulated overnight, and it won’t heal overnight. But every breath, every boundary, every nap, every no, every brave yes, is a prayer. And I promise you, those prayers are always answered.
Have a beautiful week, dear soul.
Regards,
Cynthia
Shaman Isis
