EMOTIONAL INJURIES – TRAUMA

We all know injuries of the body: bruises after being hit, burns when our skin has come into contact with something too hot, cuts when something sharp or spiky has touched our skin…

In the same way our body can suffer from injuries, also our soul can be injured. Injuries of the body are usually visible. Emotional injuries are invisible and therefore much harder to understand: for the injured person as well as others. This story is about such an emotional wound.

Are there things that frighten you because they remind you of difficult times? Is there something that makes you really sad and you don’t want to talk about it? Are there others who cannot understand why you don’t feel like doing something you liked doing before? Do you just want to be left alone – or on the contrary – need someone close by? As you will see, other girls and boys know what you are going through from own experience!

Feeling pain all over your body may be a reaction to terrible events. Some people feel this kind of pain in a specific place in their body, like headache, stomach ache, heart ache, pain in the knees… If you have physical problems please contact a medical doctor.

Your whole body may be in pain. Sometimes doctors cannot find physical explanations for them, but still these pains and aches are really there! The soul hurts so much and has chosen a place in the body to show how bad it is.

This story is about such pains and about how we can understand them. Moreover, it shares ideas about how I can help either myself or others with this problem.