What’s your poppy? Finding healing after trauma

What does the poppy have to do with trauma healing?

Travel with me back to 1915…

The war-torn battlefield cried out with the blood of the dead. The agony of the wounded. The pain of the living.

Soldiers lay scattered across the field. Brave men crouched in bunkers, tending to their fallen countrymen and preparing for the next attack.

An explosion of poppy in Flander’s Field

A Canadian army doctor named John McCrae looked out over the blood-soaked field. In the makeshift cemetery where he’d just buried his friend, poppies bloomed as far as the eye could see.

A year before, when the first battle raged in this same field, the land was barren. The battle churned the soil, activating the seeds which lay dormant within.

A year later, those seeds had sprouted beauty amid the carnage, calm among the chaos.

Immortalized by John McCrae’s poem, “In Flander’s Field,” the poppy now symbolizes remembrance and is an icon of Memorial Day, which we celebrate today in the U.S.

The seeds of your strength blossom through trauma.

The poppy also symbolizes resilience. Strength in the face of adversity.

See, those poppies did not exist when fighting first broke out on Flander’s Field in 1914. The dormant seeds were activated as the land was churned by the explosions of artillery, the marching of troops, and the turning of the soil to bury the dead.

The beauty came because of the hardship.

See where I’m going here?

Just like in Flander’s Field, the turmoils and traumas of your life produced beauty and strength. Not out of the blue, mind you. Your strength didn’t magically appear one day. It was there all along, just like the poppy seeds. When the hardships came, you blossomed.

What is YOUR poppy? What beauty, what strength, what resilience bloomed as a result of the hardships in your life?

See, your trauma didn’t break you. It churned the soil so your seeds of strength could grow.

I don’t talk about trauma as much as I should. So many of us have it. And it can stop us in our tracks if we let it. But when you see your poppies that bloomed as a result, the lessons you learned and the way you grew from the experiences, you can hold your head high. Not let your past sabotage your future.

Your past shapes you, but it doesn’t define you.

If you do the work to heal. To see the poppies among the gravestones.

Healing your past is the heart of the work I do with clients in my Confidence & Authenticity Private Mentorship. It doesn’t matter if your trauma is “big T” or “little t” trauma. It all affects us until we deal with it. Lay it to rest. Even learn to embrace it as part of the path which lead us to where we are today.

It doesn’t have to take years. In fact, my private clients learn effective strategies to heal their past within a few weeks.

You can’t put a band-aid on a bleeding, broken soul and expect it to heal. You’ve gotta do the work. And I’m here to guide you through that process.  

If you’re ready to deal with the root causes of your self-doubt once and for all, to heal your past so you can radiate confidence and BE yourself in your life and business, then schedule a time to talk with me about whether the Confidence & Authenticity Private Mentorship is right for you.