It has often been said that the covid-19 pandemic was a thief that stole from us all, bringing about significant loss, chaos, grief, anger, division and global challenges on an unprecedented scale. 

From –

• Lock downs
• Job losses, 
• Covid, 
• Long covid, 
• Covid deaths
• Isolation from sick or dying loved ones
• Restricted healthcare 
• Cancelled special occasions or travel plans
• Vaccines 
• Vaccine hesitancy
• Vaccine injuries
• Vaccine deaths 
• Mandates 
• Restrictions for those that didn’t take the vaccine 
• Isolation
• Censorship
• Misinformation

This pandemic has impacted us all.

Our health, mental health, wealth, relationships, sense of trust and hope have markedly changed and may never fully go back to pre-pandemic ways if we don’t take measures to release the covid-traumas of the last three years. 

What Is Trauma?

Generally speaking, trauma is an emotional response to a life altering event. Often, an event that threatens you or the life of someone close to you. Trauma can also result from perceived threat and vulnerability which in turn can triggers feelings of significant fear and/or helplessness. 

Trauma can cause a wide range of symptoms, including anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, shame, insomnia, hopelessness, numbness and more.

Trauma can also lead to addictions and bring about fears and phobias. 

Many clients come to me for binge or emotional eating issues that surfaced, worsened or resurfaced during the pandemic. Many have shared how isolation caused them to dwell on the past, become anxious and anti-social, depressed, numb and even forgetful.

Others have spoken about anger and resentment for many reasons ranging from not seeing a loved one before they passed away, being denied crucial medical treatment or feeling pressured into taking vaccines they didn’t want.

There are also many dealing with the loss of relationships, careers, homes etc. often brought about by mandates and job losses

For many, the link between covid-trauma and binge/emotional eating or feeling unmotivated, stuck, disempowered, fearful, neurotic, anxious, reclusive etc. wasn’t always clear. 

Most became angry at themselves for not coping while trying to suppress their addictions or feelings of hopelessness. 

Not coping brings shame, which leads to isolation, which exacerbates the bingeing, anxiety or depression until you feel completely out of control and unsure who to turn to.     

Binge eating, emotional eating, depression and anxiety are only a few ways people found themselves effected by covid-trauma. Drinking excessively, drugs, online shopping, domestic abuse, child abuse and suicide all increased during the lockdowns.

For many people, the pandemic has caused economic loss, grief, mistrust, loneliness and uncertainty. These deeply traumatising experiences came about due to circumstances that were out of most peoples control. 

If you are reading this blog post, I want to ask you a question: do you recognise these symptoms in yourself? 

This is a very important question for you to ask yourself because recognising and acknowledging trauma is the first and most important step towards healing. 

If you have experienced any of the challenges mentioned above and are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, unmotivated or any other symptoms mentioned, you may be dealing with covid-trauma. 

How Can I Get Help?

No matter what your experience has been, it’s important to know that you are not alone and its not your fault. More and more people are recognising they are unable to shift feelings of anxiety and depression, mistrust and fear alone, there is no shame in that and there is no shame in seeking help.

In fact, seeking help is empowering in itself. 

Remember, healing from trauma is a process, and understanding it can take time. But by acknowledging your trauma and seeking help, you are taking an important step towards an empowered, strong and bright future. 

So, if you are suffering trauma related to the pandemic and want to overcome it, you are welcome to contact me for a free 40 minute chat. By talking we can determine whether I am able to help you by using rewiring techniques to address the trauma where it sits in your mind to allow it to fully be understood and then released.

Generally 1-3 sessions are completely transformative and each session is approx 60 -120mins long.  

Click the link below to get in touch. There is life and joy beyond covid, getting yourself strong and into a clear frame of mind helps you deal with the ups and downs of life to come.

It’s time to set yourself free from the weight of the last years and start living your empowered life.

Stacey x