Episode 46: What Does it Mean to Love Yourself after Surviving a Trauma? - Interview with Sara Adams

Loving yourself after trauma is accepting that it will not be easy. You will see yourself as an entirely different person, as you are certainly not the same. Loving yourself after trauma is committing to yourself. It is committing to your background, knowing where you’ve been and how you will move on. Loving yourself is learning how to move on from trauma but also how to use it to your advantage.  You're a fighter. You fought your way through agony, and here you are, alive. Shouldn’t you be proud of that? Commit to embracing this. Loving yourself after trauma is learning how to find happiness. Finding happiness after darkness is not as easy as a sunrise. This is okay. If you don’t remove negativity from your life, how will you expect to be happy? Know that it will take time, and use this time to create art, to better yourself, to work through your pain. Do anything that will let you exude those feelings elsewhere, and when you find happiness, do not let it go. Loving yourself after trauma is a new beginning to love others. It is taking these emotions, these heartbreaks, the physical pain of endless nights of tears, and then channeling this into loving someone else. Learning to love yourself is also learning how you express emotions for other people. It is a new beginning to loving healthy, to loving happily, to loving wholly. It is learning how to give pieces of your life away, to give yourself to someone else, to make the world a better place. The world cannot be a better place without you, and you must share everything you are with the world. Let’s listen to Sara Adams, who is a Transformational Coach who was a victim of domestic abuse and how she transformed her life from pain to success.