HOW TO SPIRITUALLY CLEANSE YOUR LIFE POST-TRAUMA

True life: I’m a cancer survivor, a recovering shopaholic, and a victim of career burnout. Trauma looks and feels different for everyone, because everyone’s life journey is unique. Even modern-day mystics, like Seeress, Deborah Hanekamp of Mama Medicine has experienced trauma in the form of burnout. “I was working 12-hour days, 6-7 days a week, while supporting my lazy boyfriend. I had to drop almost everything all at once in order to survive… It took me a year to recover.”

Similarly, it took cancer for me to finally open my eyes to see how toxic my lifestyle was for my mind, body, and soul. However, I’m confident and content with the thought that my soul chose this path. “You survived such a toxic energy, yet you needed to have that. It was medicine for you, because something needed to be released. You need to engage with the energy that is naturally within you to heal,” assured Hanekamp — but it’s easier said than done. How do you truly heal? How do you thoroughly cleanse? Where do you begin?

Now that I consider myself a mindful cancer survivor that strives to embrace a “balanced” lifestyle, I am always looking for remedies, rituals, and modalities to spiritually cleanse my being and my surroundings in order to move forward — even if it’s a quick mental refresh after a long, hard week. I connected with Mama Medicine herself to inquire how to spiritually cleanse your life post-trauma and heal yourself from the inside-out.