Skills to Heal
Skills to heal aren’t just practical things like knowing medical first aid. Interestingly enough, no one (that I know of) has come up with a trauma first aid course.
These are what people like to call coping mechanisms… but the unfortunate thing about just a coping mechanism is that it’s a holding place. It’s a small skill to help you in a high level crisis moment - it’s not a healing skill.
Skills to Heal are things like:
Counseling
Emotional Regulation
Grounding
Knowing Your Triggers
Recognizing Your Body’s Signals
Understanding what you’re going through instead of condemning yourself.
Understanding What’s Missing & Where and How to Get it
We’ll go through these individually before we get to the bigger skills.
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