How Your Unhealed Trauma Is Affecting Your Spiritual Growth.
In order to ascend, first you must descend..
You know that feeling when you’re doing all the right things.. reading the books, pulling the cards, sitting on the mat, saying the affirmations, and yet something still feels stuck?
That’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because there’s deeper layers that are asking to be met.
Spiritually isn’t all love and light. There’s the shadow, the trauma and more often than not, it’s through this work that we get the most aligned transformation.
The path to spiritual liberation isn’t about bypassing the heavy stuff.
It’s about facing it. Feeling it. Integrating it.
Trauma doesn’t just live in your mind - it lives in your body.
And when it’s left unhealed, it doesn’t just go quiet.
It becomes a silent block that messes with your energy, your connection, and your capacity to grow into who you really are.
Let me show you how unhealed trauma might be affecting your spiritual growth…
It disconnects you from your Higher Self
Trauma can trigger survival mode.
It makes you sever ties with your authentic self just to stay safe.
But the more you abandon your truth, the harder it becomes to access your intuition, your clarity, your you.
And without that connection? Growth feels hollow.
It blocks the flow of energy
Unhealed trauma creates energetic congestion in your body.
You can be meditating all day, but if your root or sacral chakra is blocked from stored pain, the energy isn’t moving freely.
And if energy can’t flow, you can’t rise.
It feeds your limiting beliefs
You know those deep-down doubts like “I’m not good enough,” or “I’ll never get there”?
They’re not your truth.
They’re your trauma talking.
And until you meet those beliefs with love and healing, they’ll keep holding you back from what’s possible.
It makes you scared of being vulnerable
Trauma tells you it’s safer to stay guarded.
But real growth happens when your heart is open—when you’re willing to be seen, to connect, to let love in.
Spiritual growth requires vulnerability.
And I know that’s scary… but it’s where the magic is.
It keeps you stuck in cycles
Unprocessed trauma keeps repeating itself.
You find yourself in the same relationships.
The same breakdowns.
The same emotional spirals.
Until you break the pattern at its root, it will keep looping—no matter how much “work” you think you’re doing.
It disrupts your inner peace
You can’t fake peace.
When trauma is still stirring beneath the surface, your nervous system never fully rests.
And without that stillness, it’s hard to connect to the deeper spiritual realms.
Healing brings you back to your centre.
Here’s the truth:
You can’t rise if you haven’t done the descent.
You have to go inward before anything can shift on the outside.
If you’re feeling stuck on your spiritual path, it’s probably not because you’re not “high vibe” enough.
It might just be that your nervous system is holding onto pain that you haven’t sat with yet.
And the good news?
You don’t have to figure it out alone.
But you do have to be willing to show up for yourself.
Unshakeable is my free online workshop to help you come home to yourself.
From a safe space, you’ll explore where you’ve been giving your power away, how trauma affects your body and energy, and guide you through breath work, EFT and shadow work to begin releasing what’s been holding you back.
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