#Emilyism: Trauma Tapestry

Yesterday, Emily shared this quote on our podcast.

Emily said that our trauma is like one tapestry. We can pull out individual threads through healing, but they all touch and influence one another.

This makes so much sense in my own life.

If I start to think about how my childhood traumas affected me, I can see how my adulthood turned out the way it did. It’s almost like a butterfly effect. Sometimes I get weighed down in wondering, If only that one trauma didn’t happen. Where would I be now?

And I don’t get to change the past, but I can start working on pulling some threads from my Trauma Tapestry.

That’s the beauty of healing—you start to undue those threads in the tapestry. You undue the cycles you’ve been facing for years, sometimes generations.