Brad SchipkeFounder of Broken To Unbreakable

The ugly part of healing trauma nobody shows you

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Brad Schipke explains that processing trauma requires confronting and releasing painful emotions, likening the experience to vomiting. He describes the pre‑release phase as terrible—crying, weeping, feeling sick—but emphasizes that, just as vomiting leaves a person feeling relief, emotional release leads to a profound sense of healing and wellbeing. Schipke urges viewers to persist through the discomfort because the faster they feel the emotions, the faster they heal. He concludes with a call‑to‑action, inviting viewers to join his school community for a free trial to learn more about this emotional‑release method.

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You feel terrible. You're crying, you're weeping, snot's coming out of your nose. But when you're done, you feel so much better. The best metaphor to describe releasing emotions when processing a trauma is like throwing up or vomiting. When you're about to vomit, you feel terrible and it's gross and it's nasty and it smells. But after you throw up, you feel so much better. So when you're releasing emotions, it's exactly the same thing. When you are feeling the emotions or right before you're releasing the emotions, it sucks. All of us know what that feeling feels like when you let go and you have a good cry, but then you feel completely amazing afterwards. That's what we're going for. So know that in order to heal, you need to process your emotions. You need to release those emotions in the beginning. And while you're doing it, it's not going to feel good, but the relief afterwards and the processing and the healing afterwards will feel amazing. So keep going. The faster you feel, the faster you heal. If you want to learn how to do this, feel free to join my school community. It's in my bio. Check it out. You can get a free trial.