Healing Hurt Hearts Trauma Journal

By Latrice Scott MA LMHC

This journal is called "Healing Hurt Hearts” because it’s important to acknowledge and own your personal trauma(s) in order to effectively address and heal from them.

Trauma is the experience of severe psychological distress following disturbing or life-threatening events. The long-term effects of traumatic experiences can make it difficult for you to move forward in life.

However, with any journey, you must first start. The work that you will be doing will center around your trauma narrative. A trauma narrative is a psychological technique used to help survivors of trauma make sense of their experiences, while also acting as a form of exposure to painful memories. When completing a trauma narrative, the story of a traumatic experience will be told repeatedly through verbal, written, or artistic means.

This journal will help you process your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors regarding your trauma(s). Through various therapeutic exercises, inspirational quotes/statements, daily activities, and introspective journal prompts, you will be guided along your healing journey. As an added bonus, personal stories from trauma survivors (like you) are included along with resources to seek further assistance, if needed.

It is recommended that this trauma journal is completed with a professional counselor. However, this is a self-help journal that can be completed independently in 6 months, one year or more. If at any time you feel the need to take a break from this journal, that is okay. There is no time limit on unpacking your trauma. It’s all up to you!
Your healing is a page away!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765230947

Latrice Scott MA LMHC

Latrice Scott was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 10 years of experience in the Mental Health field. As a platform to continue creating quality projects, NaScot Publishing, LLC was established in 2015. NaScot Publishing, LLC’s mission is to help individuals express themselves through writing. With this intent in mind, the motto, “Revealing the Story in You” was birthed. Mental Remote Network, LLC was established in 2017 to provide counseling services to under-served populations. MRN’s motto is ‘Meeting You Where You Are’. Scott’s first published book is entitled “Hit or Miss”. She has since published “Evolution of Human Emotions” and “Hit or Miss 2”. Scott's most recent book is a Self-Help Trauma journal entitled, "Healing Hurt Hearts". This journal focuses on healing past traumas in order to live full, healthy lives in the present. Most of all, Scott’s sole focus is to help aspiring authors reveal their stories and share them with the world. FB: Nascot Publishing, LLC Healing Hurt Hearts Private Facebook Community IG: @nascotpublishing_ @mytraumajournal @mentalremotenetwork Website: www.mytraumajournal.com  

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Dedication

Ouch, That Hurts is a general response to pain, whether expected or unexpected. However, in my experience, the unexpected pain hurts the most.

I never thought that I would be creating this project by myself, without my best friend, Tangela Sails, with whom this project was birthed.

But here I am on this journey without you. A journey that we planned to complete together.

Ouch, That Hurts is the pain I felt when my Mom passed away less than two years later. This hurts the most, but I continue on for you.

Your memory will forever live on.

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Contents

Introduction- Trauma Defined

How to Use This Journal

The Beginning: My Trauma

My Thoughts, Feelings, & Beliefs

The Aftermath: My Healing

Personal Stories

Additional Journal Prompts

Contributors

About the Author

Resources

Notes

"Your vision will

become clear only

when you can look

into your heart.

Who looks outside

dreams; who looks

inside awakes.

~Carl Jung

Introduction- Trauma Defined

Trauma is the Greek word for Wound.

Trauma has many meanings. It can be defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience, emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury. Per the American Psychological Association (APA), trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships and even physical symptoms like headaches or nausea. While these feelings are normal, some people have difficulty moving on with their lives.

Trauma is the experience of severe psychological distress following any terrible or life-threatening event. Sufferers may develop emotional disturbances such as extreme anxiety, anger, sadness, survivor’s guilt, or PTSD. They may experience ongoing problems with sleep or physical pain, encounter turbulence in their personal and professional relationships, and feel a diminished sense of self-worth due to the overwhelming amount of stress.

PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is an anxiety problem that develops in some people after extremely traumatic events, such as combat, crime, an accident or natural disaster. People with PTSD may relive the event via intrusive memories, flashbacks and nightmares; avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma; and have anxious feelings they didn’t have before that are so intense their lives are disrupted.

Ouch, That Hurts!

Remember when you were a little child and you scraped your knee? Whether it was from falling off your bike, tripping when running, or being pushed down, it simply hurt, to say the least. When you look at that same knee, can you still see the scar, no matter how faint? Can you still remember how much it hurt? Did you cry? How long did it take for the wound to heal? Were you consoled? After the pain stopped and time passed, did you ride your bike and play again? Did you face your fears?

These physical scars are permanent and still visible today. If you think about what happened in the past long enough, you can continue to relive those moments. The physical pain may be long gone, but many of us continue to suffer emotional, mental, and spiritual pain. Such symptoms include flashbacks, hallucinations, panic attacks, and nightmares; which are often diagnosed as PTSD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, and a plethora of other mental health disorders. Some of these painful experiences created trauma which manifested into low self-esteem, unforgiveness, mistrust, and paranoia. Now as an adult, you may think you have