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Coming Home to Yourself: Healing After Trauma, Finding Glimmers, and Reclaiming Who You Were

There’s a quiet moment in healing, one that doesn’t always make a sound. It’s not the breakthrough in therapy or the day you finally sleep through the night. It’s softer than that. It’s the sound of your own laughter catching you by surprise, the familiar feeling of a song you used to love, or the way sunlight lands on your skin and you feel it. That is a glimmer, and in the wake of trauma, it is everything.


Trauma has a way of stripping things from us. It’s not just the event or the pain, it’s the way you slowly lose parts of yourself in the aftermath. Your joy becomes cautious. Your spontaneity dims. You question your instincts. You forget who you were before the world changed you. It can feel like you’re living in fragments, trying to piece together something that no longer fits.


But healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about gently walking yourself home.


✨ Glimmers: The Nervous System’s Whisper of Safety ✨


While trauma leaves you hypervigilant to threat (triggers), glimmers are its quiet opposite. Coined by Deb Dana, glimmers are the subtle moments when your nervous system feels safe, calm, and connected. They’re fleeting at first. Maybe it’s a breeze through the trees that reminds you that you’re still here. The sound of a child giggling. A scent that carries you back to simpler times. The way your body softens when you’re with someone who makes you feel safe.


Glimmers are the soul’s breadcrumbs. They remind you of what safety feels like, of who you used to be before the world hurt you. And as you begin to notice them more often, without even trying, you begin to trust again. Yourself. Life. Hope.


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🔥 Reclaiming Who You Were, And Who You Were Always Meant to Be 🔥


There’s grief in healing. That’s something not many people say. Because to truly heal, you have to meet the version of yourself that existed before the trauma, and mourn the time you lost. But you also get to gather her back in your arms. You get to say, “I remember you. I’ve missed you. I’m sorry it took so long.”


Reclaiming your identity isn’t about erasing what happened. It’s about acknowledging that even in the wreckage, there were parts of you that remained untouched. Your sensitivity, your creativity, your laughter, your capacity to love. These are the sacred parts that trauma couldn’t take, and now, they are rising again.


You are not starting over from scratch. You are remembering. Reweaving. Returning.


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🦋 Let it Be Slow, Let it Be Gentle 🦋


Healing is not linear. It’s circular, like the moon. It waxes and wanes. Some days you will feel like you’ve moved mountains. Others you may feel like you’re back at the beginning. That’s okay. Every step is still forward, even if it feels like a spiral.


What matters most is that you are choosing yourself. That you are giving yourself grace. That you are listening for the glimmers, and letting them guide you back to who you were, who you are.


Because underneath it all, you were never broken. Just buried beneath the weight of survival. And now, you are coming home.


💫 You are not the trauma. You are the light that lived through it. And that light is shining again, one glimmer at a time. 💛


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~ The Wild Healer ~


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