Recap: confess you have a problem, don't be afraid of a label, seek you inner strength, find a qualified person to help and now be willing to go to that dark forbidden place in your mind.
We have everything in place for this next step to take place. It is not an easy one but one I believe needs to be done to get the healing needed for your trauma. Trauma is stored in a locked away place in our minds that I like calling the forbidden place. I call it that because it is a place we forbidden ourselves to go because the pictures and events of those days, months or even years are just too hard to handle. We try to pretend they do not exist. We don't want anyone to know how much they haunt us because they might think we are week. The truth is they think you are strong for having lived through the event in the first place. The question is do you want those memories to control you forever or do you want them to be just that memories of the past? It is not easy, it is frightful to open the closet that you have locked so securely. I want to challenge you to peek in the close, slowly open the door, invite someone to step inside with you, tell them
what you see and allow them to help you to take steps to freedom. You might just take baby steps during the process but remember they are steps.
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look your fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes,'…You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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