How to embrace self-love when healing from sexual trauma | Womb Reclamation

Healing from sexual trauma can be a tough, gruelling process. In this blog post, I’m going to share how to embrace self-love when healing from sexual trauma.

Tip #1: Surrender to the lesson

When I was struggling deeply, I would often ask myself: if there was a lesson here, what would it be? What is the opportunity here? What does the Universe want me to learn? How can I evolve? When I would pivot my mindset, my power would engage and the internal force within me would take flight. It’s a way to spread your wings.

This practice is powerful because the exercise of asking yourself these questions puts you back in the power position, especially when we’re talking about healing from sexual trauma, where it’s easy to feel powerless and out of control on your journey.

Tip #2: Forgive Yourself Easily

As I would shed layers of trauma, I was forced to reckon with beliefs, habits, and behaviours I was shedding. It was an opportunity to look at them in a whole new way. When this happens, forgive yourself easily. You were doing the best you could at that time. And it’s true.

Forgiveness sets us free in the present, and it clears the pathway for new opportunities to come into our life moving forward.

Tip #3: Schedule In Your Self-Love

Anchoring your self-love practice into tangible activities, like a face mask or doing your hair, can force you to build a new neuro-pathway network. It can be also symbolic of transitioning between emotional states, especially if you resisted self-love for a long time.

Tip #4: Give Yourself Permission to Love Yourself

In my experience, I found that self-love opened the doorway to become the biggest ally in my own healing. Self-love opens the door to compassion, which is necessary when healing from sexual trauma.