Learning to trust your body is important if you want to gain trust in yourself. If you want to be confident in who you are. If you want to understand yourself better. If you want to feel safe in the body that is yours on this side of heaven, you need to learn how to trust your body.

When you learn how to trust your body, you’ll learn what you like and what you absolutely hate. You’ll learn what triggers anxiety and what brings you joy. Learning to trust your body will bring you closer to who you are and you will start feeling more like you. You will trust who you are more and understand the reasons you feel the way you do, the reasons you act the way you do, and how to get closer to who you want to be.

Learning to trust means learning to let go

Someone I listen to often says that when you learn to heal your pain, you begin to uncover the truth of who you already are, and I love that. Because it’s not that who you are is bad, or shameful just because you’ve been through pain. Who you are is wonderful and beautiful and courageous. To have walked through that amount of pain and still be walking, still be living, that’s bold and that is brave. You’re wanting healing and I love that so much for you.

The great thing about learning to heal is that it forces you to get in tune with your body. Oftentimes, with trauma and pain, we learn to disassociate. Which means we “leave our body” to deal with the pain. The way I see it is that we leave our body to deal with the trauma alone. All the while, our minds are off wandering, trying to escape the chaos and find some form of comfort. But the issue with this is that our bodies are left to deal with the destruction.

What Our Mind Forgets, Our Body Remembers

Have you heard that saying before? “What our minds forget, our bodies remember.” The reason this is true is just what I’ve explained above. Our bodies hold the trauma for us so that our minds can be protected from the excruciating pain. I’ve learned that we don’t actually have to remember the traumas in vivid pictures to heal.

Because the body remembers for us, what we need to do is rebuild trust with our bodies. Thank our bodies for the weight they have carried for us. Apologize to them for running away and leaving them to pick up the pieces. Allow them to come to us with the pain they have bared and give them a safe place to heal.

To Heal Is To Be Seen, Heard, and Validated

What does it look like to give our bodies a safe place to heal? It looks like giving our body a voice. Asking your body how are you dealing with this pain? And give your body the space to be seen, heard, and validated in the pain that it has carried for you. This is what it looks like to heal and build trust with your body.

It’s not an overnight fix, nor will it be a quick process most likely. But it will begin a beautiful process of unraveling inside you that will be well worth the time you’ve put in.

If you choose to heal, you choose to win. You choose to understand yourself better. To fight to uncover the truth of the wonderful being that you are. You are worth the fight to heal.

And if you need a friend to help you through the journey, send me an email at co*****@dy************.com and we can chat.

Much love friends, until next time <3