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Message of Healing
Healing looks like realizing what I am experiencing was deliberate vile premeditated and positioned to an annihilate me. Healing to me means seeing that the life that I've been given, by power that I am yet to understand fully, loved me enough to give me the use of these capabilities, that I do not take for granted and I use to the fullest. I eat well - foods that are good for me. My hygiene is immaculate and I take great care in loving myself, my teeth, and my skin, and my eyes, while going to my routine health practitioners which I always have on a routine regular basis. Healing to me means that my outlook, my surroundings my home is taken care of immaculately, meticulously, and it is the paradise that I would like to live in; I make it so. Healing to me is taking responsibility for myself. While I am looking for others to help me and advocate for me, which I found absolutely none so far, I still don't stop knowing that it's up to me if any change is going to be, even if it's been five years living in total isolation. Healing to me is making sure that the things that I am responsible for I stay on top of, and don't make these things that part that is unhealthy, giving more weight to my abuse. Healing to me doing the things that I enjoy doing; may they be traveling, even though I travel alone and I have to give an attorney's number since I have nobody "in case of emergency" to put down, having been totally alienated. Healing to me is realizing that despite the seeing the whole world is against me, I myself can be for myself with any one of those people who have taken up arms against me. Healing to me is just being my radiant beautiful self each and every day, everywhere I go despite knowing that my abuser has soiled every connection, every connectivity, and every potentially possibility that lies before me.
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Grounding activity
Find a comfortable place to sit. Gently close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths - in through your nose (count to 3), out through your mouth (count of 3). Now open your eyes and look around you. Name the following out loud:
5 – things you can see (you can look within the room and out of the window)
4 – things you can feel (what is in front of you that you can touch?)
3 – things you can hear
2 – things you can smell
1 – thing you like about yourself.
Take a deep breath to end.
From where you are sitting, look around for things that have a texture or are nice or interesting to look at.
Hold an object in your hand and bring your full focus to it. Look at where shadows fall on parts of it or maybe where there are shapes that form within the object. Feel how heavy or light it is in your hand and what the surface texture feels like under your fingers (This can also be done with a pet if you have one).
Take a deep breath to end.
Ask yourself the following questions and answer them out loud:
1. Where am I?
2. What day of the week is today?
3. What is today’s date?
4. What is the current month?
5. What is the current year?
6. How old am I?
7. What season is it?
Take a deep breath to end.
Put your right hand palm down on your left shoulder. Put your left hand palm down on your right shoulder. Choose a sentence that will strengthen you. For example: “I am powerful.” Say the sentence out loud first and pat your right hand on your left shoulder, then your left hand on your right shoulder.
Alternate the patting. Do ten pats altogether, five on each side, each time repeating your sentences aloud.
Take a deep breath to end.
Cross your arms in front of you and draw them towards your chest. With your right hand, hold your left upper arm. With your left hand, hold your right upper arm. Squeeze gently, and pull your arms inwards. Hold the squeeze for a little while, finding the right amount of squeeze for you in this moment. Hold the tension and release. Then squeeze for a little while again and release. Stay like that for a moment.
Take a deep breath to end.