Taking Your Power Back After Sexual Trauma To Reclaim Your Womb

In this post, I’m going to be sharing about how to take back your power after sexual trauma and abuse. I’ve shared my own story publicly, but when I was 23 I began to reconcile with repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. A huge part of my healing journey and evolution was in taking back my power, and defining what that even meant to me in my own experiences. In this post, I’m going to share some journaling prompts, tips, and more on taking back your power after sexual trauma so you can live your most empowered, best life.

(You can read more of my story here).

The truth is, everyone’s relationship to power is different. What does it mean to take back your power after sexual trauma, to you?

Not to anyone else. Not to the girl on CNN telling her story. To you.

Journal Prompts

• What does power mean to me? What has it meant in my life in my past?
• What experiences am I still holding onto that most negatively impacted my relationship to power?
• What are 3 areas of life where I feel the most empowered?

Embracing Spiritual Evolution. Period.

The more I healed from my own sexual trauma, the more I realized that sexual trauma healing is, in essence, spiritual healing. Sexual energy is innately spiritual. When we heal our relationship to this source of energy within us, we heal something profoundly connected to the Universe. The body is not disconnected from your spirituality, just as your womb isn’t. Same goes for your femininity.

Embracing spirituality as an evolution of consciousness, rather than a mask or a “thing” we need to do, can be powerful. It’s about evolution of thought, including the way we view not only ourselves, but what we’ve experienced in our lives, as well as how we view our power in relationship to all of it. In essence, it is all connected.

When you take back your power in one area of your life, you do it in several. Power truly is everything. It’s the force that helps you to bring what’s deeply inside of you, outside. It moves us through life.

The key to taking back your power? Take back your power.

When I was really working on taking back my power, I used to pause constantly and ask myself: what would be the “power move” in this situation?

Let’s define a “power move”. A power move is the choice or decision in any given situation that will make you feel the most empowered at any given time.

Sexual abuse and trauma is usually not about sex at all. It’s about power. What does it mean to reclaim your power after going through something like that?

Here are some examples of how I personally made “power moves” in my own life that helped me to heal and take back my power:

• I made the choice to follow my intuition to travel in order to heal and release layers from my experiences, like traveling to Egypt and Bali.
• I shared parts of my story publicly (you can check out my ‘features’ page here to check out some of the podcasts I’ve been a guest on)
• I would follow my intuition to buy the crystals, books, sessions, supplements, herbs, etc. that would help me to heal energetically, emotionally, and physically
• I volunteered with an organization that supported women’s rights and took back my power through activism
• I did a ton of deep energetic clearings on myself, which I also paired with hypnotherapy.

3 Steps To Take Action For Your Next Power Move

Let’s put this into practice together. Here is a breakdown of EXACTLY how you can implement and integrate the Power Move.

Step #1: The next time something comes up that you don’t like, or you’re faced with a decision, take a second to pause. First, recognize that this is an opportunity to shift into something different. An opportunity to bring a different part of your online.

Step #2: Ask yourself, “What would be the ‘power move’ in this situation?”. In other words, what would bring me into my power here? Listen for your intuition’s answer to you. It might come as a soft knowing, a bold answer, or something you audibly hear or see in your mind’s eye. Wait for the response.

Step #3: Take action. A power move is the bridge between the divine and your human body. In other words, you gotta take what you feel and do the thing you are being asked to do.

Forgive yourself for the past, and embrace your power now.

When I started to see how much I had given away my power, I was upset with myself. In hindsight, I can understand how much of conditioning was connected to a previous lack of power. We are all learning, all of the time. Sometimes, living out of our power is just something we grew up with. We didn’t consciously choose it then, but we need to consciously choose it now.

That’s power, too, focusing on what we are in control of so that we can live our best lives possible now.

It’s important to practice self-compassion and self-forgiveness for anything you did or said in the past that came from a disempowered place. You’re in the evolution process.

Power & reclaiming the womb

When healing from your past experiences connected to sexual trauma, power comes into play because owning our power helps us to push forward in our healing and through any past experiences. Power is the guiding force. It is a reckoning.

When you receive downloads, guidance on healing, your power is the bridge between the ethereal and physical realms. It is the connector between following what your soul or higher self is guiding you to do, with what your physical body and reality needs from you in that moment.

When you reclaim your power, you reclaim any part of you that got lost, fragmented, or changed by your experiences. People who perpetuate sexual trauma and abuse often feel powerless, and need to feel powerful. When you reclaim your power, there can be a true sense of agency and victory over this reality. In our power, we are truly free. In our power, we can empower ourselves and others to speak up with our voices, make decisions from a place of empowerment, create our best lives, and manifest the realities we want to see for each other and ourselves.