Calm your nervous system first. Grounding practices settle you down before you can explore what happened to you and why it still hurts. Without that foundation, deeper trauma work won't stick.
When we do any of the practices that are going to help settle our nervous system and help us feel more grounded, that's already going to be the best start that we have toward healing trauma. Then we can actually get into the digging work. What happened to you? What happened before you? What happened around you? What happened that actually left an imprint in your soul that made it so that you experience this tenderness that we call trauma.
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