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Finding your Community: Healing & Belonging
Key to healing from trauma: Find your people, your community — your tribe, mi gente.
My eyes opened wide as I read these words from Oprah and Dr. Perry’s book: What happened to You.
.. a key to healing from trauma is finding your people, your community. This can help build resilience, post traumatic healing and ultimately post traumatic wisdom.
Belonging
Everyone needs people who can listen, be present, and make them feel heard and seen. When we have friends, family and other folks in our life, we have a natural healing environment. We heal best in community.
When we find our tribe, we heal beyond measure. We start to connect the dots and start to feel alive again. Like we matter in this world. And truth be told, we all matter — all humans matter. We just need to start to love ourselves and stop seeking approval.
When we live on others terms, we forget and lose our own identity.
Having come home, it was a struggle at first to switch identities from the fearless Div in US to the timid and shy Div in India, who barely speaks. I decided to be myself and knowing that will not be what my parents expect of me, I am learning to be ok. I hope they see that I am…
