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Rediscovering Love

Carlotta L
4 min readNov 1, 2021

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Hello beautiful soul!

I am now fully back in the UK after spending 3 months in Italy where I embarked on a journey through childhood traumas that have held me back for a very long time.

As you may know, I am very self-aware of my emotions and feelings and what requires my attention.

Being self-aware is something I used to struggle to accept, especially when I was younger, I couldn’t manage the wave of overwhelming emotions. With time, I learned to accept this aspect of myself, and I am actually grateful to be self-aware because it allows me to gain information about myself and act fast when I want to shift and release challenging emotions or to let go of unhelpful limiting beliefs (I use this same technique in my healing practice).

In my teenage years, I suffered from depression, chronic anxiety, I was in deep despair, and the only thing that helped me numb the pain was alcohol.

One day I chose to stop the spiral of self-doubt, despair, low self-worth, fear and anger, and I started to focus on the possibilities the were in front of me. I did deep trauma healing work that I managed to shift how I was feeling and started to really LIVE my life.

It took me a while of course, because I didn’t have anyone to help me or mentor me, but I did it, and that’s what counts.

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Carlotta L
Carlotta L

Written by Carlotta L

Searching for meaning in our emotions and feelings. Doctoral researcher in counselling psychology and psychotherapy. www.selfhealingclinic.com/ig

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