Surviving Traumaland: The Intuitive Aspects of Healing

Sometimes you don’t know what you are made of until you start to fall apart and your best parts pop out and hold you together. We are made up of so much more than id, ego and super ego. Often, bad things happen to good people. That is life. But, you don’t have to be a victim of circumstances. Listening to our inner-guidance can save us from being a victim at all.

I embarked on a similar journey to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when I fell down the rabbit hole of Traumaland. As a child I had been encouraged to suppress my intuitive gifts of hearing voices and drawing auras. It was not acceptable in school or church. I locked my intuitions away in the depths of my mind. But, when my life was threatened by misdiagnosis and Hospital Policy my guides blew off the doors of their cell and flew to my rescue. Rather than being a victim of circumstances, I self advocated and became an active participant in my life.

My guides lead me through my tunnel of crisis and out the other side. Illness is a vehicle that drives the bigger story of survival against all odds while locked in the relationship triangle between my husband and crisis. Which would be the victor? I embraced my intuition and carefully built a bridge that was under constant construction, between conventional and metaphysical healing of complete wellness. It became my bridge to everywhere that manifested exits and new entrances on the road to complete healing of mind body and spirit.

Traumaland is the intellectual, emotional, and intuitive amusement park of crisis where every ride, game, and attraction demonstrates a different aspect of humanity’s complexities and individualism during the process of healing. Surviving Traumaland provides multiple explanations of the way things are in the physical, spiritual, psychic, and dream world of trauma.
Crisis is humbling and comes in many forms. It can be a life threatening illness, a lifestyle change, divorce, death, financial downturns, or all of the above. It is guaranteed to knock you down with its series of catastrophes that begin with discovery, often with no end in sight. Intuition can play an important part in survival and is defined as instinctively knowing without conscious reasoning. If we have Gut-Instincts, we can tap into our physician-within.

What I seek to present by writing this book is an alternative to ignoring our intuition in favor of science or ignoring science in favor of intuition. Why limit ourselves with one when we can use both to our advantage? Don’t be a victim of circumstances. I learned that the best way to survive any crisis is to mix intuitional and scientific information and then cross-check them against each other for answers that are indisputably correct. Listen, then verify. Believe but validate. By respecting both modalities, we double our chances of finding correct answers.

It is time to stop ignoring ourselves and discover our voices. Every challenge we overcame creates a new part of our inner voice/personality. In order to effectively battle crisis, we must get in touch with our inner selves and work together toward the goal of survival by using everything available to us. By searching within ourselves through dreams, meditation, or prayer, we will find our own set of answers to any challenge.

When my intuitive suspicion of breast cancer was medically confirmed, I considered suicide as a means of freeing myself from a painful uncertainty. When faced with crisis many of us are engulfed by fear of the unknown. I wanted to avoid the gruesome death Mom had suffered from cancer sixteen months earlier. Before I had time to fully grieve for Mom, I was grieving for myself. Unfortunately, many of us forget that we are armed with lessons learned throughout life. Our inner selves must become reunited in the goal to survive. Everyone battling any life-threatening crisis has his or her own set of questions concerning treatment and survival. Questions concerning intuition often remain unanswered by the medical field and conventional society. SURVIVING TRAUMALAND answers them.

Spiritual guides, angels, intuition, gut instincts, call them what you will, “voices” and dreams have gotten a bad rap in society. Just ask Joan of Arc. Her voices were a double-edged sward that led to victory in battle and then to the stake as a witch. Yet, dreams saved my life. Without their intervention, I believe I would be dead, and this book would be a buried idea.