By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor.

Emotional Healing.

Some pain and trauma are just too intense to get past the first time around.

Getting over things is a process. Some things need time to heal. It is hard for others to sit and watch you suffer but sometimes you just need that space to get past it. What you can’t do is pretend it never happened and hope the pain will go away.

People come for counseling and they expect the pain to end right away. It can’t always happen that way. We find that pain, from trauma or grief and loss, takes time, and repeated attempts to get better.

Clients who have suffered a severe loss, someone close to them has died, find it hard to talk about that person at first. In the beginning, it is mostly about the pain of the loss and the tears.

Over time, the process of recovery is like the way you might peel an onion. You strip away an outer layer and then you cry. Then as your tears dry you strip away another layer. Eventually, you reach the core.

In the early stages of grief, all you can feel is the pain. What can happen if you keep working on the process is that with time you can let the pain recede and begin to remember the good things, the treasured memories, you have of that person.

People mean well when they tell you to just get over it but what they often do not understand is that getting over it is a process, not a destination. Some things in life we never get over, not completely, but we can reach a place of peace with what happened.

In counseling, we find that to push the client to talk about things before they are ready can cause more trauma rather than aid healing. Some clients come for a while, go as far as they can, and then go off to live their lives for a while. Some find that they need to return to continue or finish the process. Others have the drive to get the painful part over with as soon as possible. You may find that the pain keeps reminding you that help is needed and you can’t let it go until you finish the project.

Either way, I hope that if you are feeling the pain of a loss, a death, a trauma, a life disappointment, that you will find someone to work with on this issue that helps you move through the pain by leading you along not by forcing you to go faster than you are ready to go.

Therapy should heal the emotions not create new wounds.

If you are only partway along in your healing process, keep moving forward and know that eventually, you can reach a point of finding the meaning in the loss. Not having someone now should not take all those happy memories from you. Having suffered a terrible trauma need not rob you of your future.

The road of recovery can be difficult, but recovery is worth the effort.

Staying connected with David Joel Miller

Seven David Joel Miller Books are available now!

My newest book is now available. It was my opportunity to try on a new genre. I’ve been working on this book for several years, but now seem like the right time to publish it.

Story Bureau.

Story Bureau is a thrilling Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic adventure in the Surviving the Apocalypse series.

Baldwin struggles to survive life in a post-apocalyptic world where the government controls everything.

As society collapses and his family gets plunged into poverty, Baldwin takes a job in the capital city, working for a government agency called the Story Bureau. He discovers the Story Bureau is not a benign news outlet but a sinister government plot to manipulate society.

Bumps on the Road of Life. Whether you struggle with anxiety, depression, low motivation, or addiction, you can recover. Bumps on the Road of Life is the story of how people get off track and how to get your life out of the ditch.

Dark Family Secrets: Doris wants to get her life back, but small-town prejudice could shatter her dreams.

Casino Robbery Arthur Mitchell escapes the trauma of watching his girlfriend die. But the killers know he’s a witness and want him dead.

Planned Accidents  The second Arthur Mitchell and Plutus mystery.

Letters from the Dead: The third in the Arthur Mitchell mystery series.

What would you do if you found a letter to a detective describing a crime and you knew the writer and detective were dead, and you could be next?

Sasquatch. Three things about us, you should know. One, we have seen the past. Two, we’re trapped there. Three, I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to our own time.

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