Overcoming Past Trauma

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How Overcoming Past Trauma Can Help You Achieve Future Dreams Trauma. For most people, this is a very uncomfortable word. Even if you're not consciously thinking of a traumatic experience from your past, remnants of it may come out in other ways throughout your daily life. This can be in the form of negative thoughts, emotional outbursts, and nightmares. If you've experienced trauma that you have not dealt with or healed from, it may be interfering with your ability to achieve your goals. You're not alone. Millions of people have been through traumatic experiences. Those experiences don't define who you are as a person, but, the way you think about them, heal from them, and grow from them certainly does. Although it may be difficult to face, overcoming past trauma can be the final key you need to …show more content…

Ask yourself this: “What could I stop doing, do less of, more of, continue doing, and start doing to achieve my goals?” Oftentimes, trauma survivors find themselves stuck in a loop of repeated trauma. In other words, a person who survived an abusive childhood may bounce from abusive relationship to abusive relationship. Think about your past experiences and identify any patterns you might see. Once you do this, you'll more easily identify what you can stop or start doing to avoid those familiar pitfalls in the future. Who Inspires Me the Most (And What Can You Learn From Them?) Now, think about someone who inspires you. For example, someone like life coach Tony Robbins. What is it about them that you admire? What do they do to overcome life's difficulties? Watch their videos or read their books and see how they figured things out. Remember, they were once in a similar situation to the one you're in right now, and they not only overcame the obstacle, they thrived beyond it and turned their suffering into

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