Healing After Abuse & PTSD: Moving Forward and Rebuilding Your Life | Louisa Rodriguez

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Nothing is permanent.

Not the life you're living. Not the way you're feeling. And not the things you once thought you'd never get beyond.

In this episode of Finding Foundations, I'm joined by Louisa Rodriguez for a conversation about healing from PTSD, moving forward after abusive relationships, fear, surrender and what it takes to start building the life you actually want.

We talk about what happens after you've survived something difficult — when the immediate crisis may be over, but your body and mind haven't necessarily caught up.

About fear and the hold it can continue to have over your decisions. The difficulty of trusting yourself again. And the strange space between knowing you don't want your old life anymore and not yet knowing exactly what the new one looks like.

Louisa shares her experience of PTSD and abusive relationships, and how she began moving forward rather than allowing what had happened to determine what came next.

We talk about trauma recovery, rebuilding your life after abuse, learning to trust yourself again, surrendering the need to control everything and finding the courage to create a life that feels like your own.

And perhaps most importantly, the reminder that where you are now isn't necessarily where you'll stay.

Sometimes when you're standing in the middle of something, it's almost impossible to imagine life being different.

But nothing is permanent.

And your past gets to be part of your story without getting to decide the rest of it.

find Louisa at the @ the joy tank on instagram.