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Stepping back to regroup will be a theme on Monday and Tuesday, as a balancing Libra Moon illuminates where we are out of sync, both physically and spiritually. There’s a Sagittarius full Moon coming this weekend, and because it usually starts generating its influence about five days before it peaks, we’ll have to be on the lookout for the surprises it could bring our way! Add the Scorpio Moon that prevails from Wednesday to Friday, and even more unexpected things could come our way. The best way to walk through these days is to trust your intuition, pay close attention, and practice the art of flexibility and patience! The weekend unfolds under a Sagittarius Moon, with the full Moon waxing on Sunday. Overall, it will be an easy-going few days, but remember that a full Moon always kicks off a two-week cycle of release, and being in the fiery sign of Sagittarius, we may want to look at any areas where we need to make amends, forgive others, or simply reconnect with loved ones on a more personal basis.

The Body Remembers: A Journey Toward Healing Trauma, by Lisa Collins, EdD

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Trauma is an elusive foe. It hides in the body, making it tricky to recognize—mainly because it often is not what people think it is. Many believe trauma results only from major events like a fire, a terrible accident, or a natural disaster. However, the truth is that trauma happens when the body perceives a threat or senses danger—whether real or imagined.

Everyone has experienced these sensations at some point. The panic might hit when you realize you may have left the stove on or the sinking feeling from a hard-to-read email at work. These moments leave a trace. Each time your body encounters a perceived danger, it stores that experience as a marker of harm and builds a protective response for the future. The body then reacts to anything resembling past harm, even subtly.

Hebb's axiom (Hebb, 1949) tells us that "cells that fire together wire together." Researchers have noted that such cells also "survive together" (Post et al., 1998). This information means that the elements of an experience—sights, sounds, emotions—link to form a neural network that encodes the memory. The whole system can react when even one part of that network is triggered by a present-day event. This process is what we often call "remembering."

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's well-read book The Body Keeps the Score describes what happens with trauma. It truly is miraculous how our bodies care for us. They care so well that trauma can start to feel like part of our personality. But here's the good news: we can identify and heal from past harms. We can move trauma out of our bodies and create space for peace and wholeness.

As an author, trauma practitioner, life coach, and assistant professor in higher education, I have done this work myself. I've walked the path of healing from my trauma, and I share what I've learned in my book, The Truth About Trauma.

Healing trauma requires a roadmap—a guide to restoration and resilience. That's what The Truth About Trauma offers. It is a companion for those seeking to understand their pain, release what no longer serves them, and build a peaceful life.

For a long time, I believed that how I reacted to words, actions, events, or proximity was just "who I was." I was wrong. I wasn't responding as myself—I was reacting to the trauma that had taken root in my body. But those experiences don't have to define us. The harm may be in the body, but you can be free.

Three Levels of Healing
The book describes three levels of healing. Level 1 focuses on the body's sensations. Since trauma lives in the body, it is foundational to get to know your body well. One step toward getting to know the body is getting still enough to hear your body communicate.

Pay attention to body sensations and sudden changes in behavior or feelings. When the body experiences too much too soon, it could respond differently. When your body gives you information, listen. A sensation could be a sudden change in feelings like irritation, fear, pain, dread, or reactive behaviors. Many times, we ignore our body and its sensations.

First Tip
Pay attention to your body and what it is communicating to you. Responses could be flight, fight, freeze, fawn, or flock. Flight is the need to get away. Fight is the feeling of pushing back or confronting. Freeze is the inability to move, a sense of stuckness. Fawn is the feeling of currying favors or pleasing people. Flock is the need to be in a group (safety in numbers). We live with collective, historical, and cultural trauma in our society. The Truth About Trauma explains what trauma is and is not and details different forms of trauma. The book provides guidance to assist in establishing a relationship with your body—an array of self-care tools for body connection are in every chapter.

Level 2 is paying attention to our mind patterns. Our thoughts are important and influence the body. What thoughts are going through your mind? Many times, we take our thoughts for truth. Our thoughts can be a manifestation of past harmful experiences.

Second Tip
If thoughts are degrading, mean, and unkind, be curious about where these thoughts come from in your history. Loving, kind, and peaceful thoughts are aligned with living in peace. Being curious about these thoughts can uncover harm. Thoughts could originate from an earlier time in younger life or any problematic situation. In The Truth About Trauma, practical tools guide you toward healing mind patterns. The activities assist you in learning more about your thoughts, like Younger Selves and the Thinking Map, and establishing healthy habits like meditations, rituals of self-care, and affirmations.

Level 3 contains reflective tools for positive reconnection to the body, mind, and Spirit. Level 3 builds on the previous levels to pave the way for peaceful living.

Third Tip
By listening to your body sensations, you begin to identify possible trauma responses in your body. These curiosities assist in removing experiences through learning about trauma and using the tools in the book that work for you. Negative mind patterns are interrupted by the menu of tools provided in the book. These processes provide a fertile ground for exploring the being that harmful experiences have covered. Level 3 includes the beautiful exploration of your soul through chakra healing, muscle testing, and spirituality. The Truth About Trauma consists of tools for body sensations, mind patterns, and connecting more deeply to yourself.

The Truth About Trauma is a book about a healing journey based on my experience and the use of all the tools in the book, and supports the personal exploration of health. Start your own healing journey with your copy today.

Reference:
Badenoch, B. (2008). Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology. W. W. Norton & Company.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2025. All rights reserved.

For a few years now, small children under five will seem to stare at the top of my head and smile. I don't know what they're looking at but they seem to be mesmerized. I love kids and they seem to trust me even when I'm a stranger to them. I feel that what attracts them may be some sort of light. Some have said it's my angel, inner child or my aura. I am in the medical field, and some very ill patients of mine seem to receive comfort from whatever this is. At the other end of the spectrum, some have said it was evil and that I should go receive communion from a priest. I reject that idea because I think if it were evil, I would sense that. Nevertheless, that idea does have me a little concerned. Thanks in advance for your time!

Michele

Astrea:

You are probably an Angelic Being of some kind. Most Angelic Beings have light around them or around a certain part of their bodies. Light shining like a halo is simply the manifestation of the positive energy you are radiating.

This halo is probably always there, but it may shift with your mood and only be visible to some people. Children would be the prime viewers of this since they haven't built up walls against their psychic abilities yet. Not only that, but more and more Indigo and Crystal children are emerging into speech now, so they are able to communicate what they see. To them, seeing a halo or band of light is a normal, everyday thing, while to fearful or envious adults, it could be interpreted as evil. Ignorance is agony sometimes, isn't it?

This halo is energy you're giving over to others in Love and in Healing Light. Some people might say you have the gift of laying on hands even though your hands are just one physical conduit for the energy channeling through you.

Touch is only one way that you can help others. The patients you see as adults are quite ill at the time, and in illness, we tend to stop blocking psychic perceptions because our ego's defenses go down.

The people who say this is evil are misinformed and trying to scare you for some reason. They fear what they don't understand. Often because they can't see what is there, they feel insecure, and they may try to create confusion for people who can. If what you had was evil, no one would be taking comfort from it, and children certainly would not be so trusting of you.

While Beings like you are few and far between, they are nevertheless all around us. The Beings of Light I encounter seem to be finding easier ways to be recognized. Their need to communicate the light of love is motivating them to be inventive. More of you are coming out by allowing your light to be visually seen in addition to being psychically sensed. Your halo is pretty; there is no reason to fear showing it off.

For your communion, try going deeply into nature. Find a place with running water or go to the beach. Be quiet. Renew yourself from the wind and water, the earth and the sun. Your body is your temple and your temple is your church. Think of new ways and ideas to share your gift of light. Renew yourself with these ideas.

*****

Susyn:

The light that surrounds your head is definitely an aura and not something evil. When faced with a phenomenon they know little to nothing about, some people will naturally fear it. This has been going on for centuries. In fact, even when the first camera was invented, most people were frightened of it and erroneously believed that it could steal one's soul.

Fortunately, our generation is in the midst of a spiritual evolution. As we are beginning to understand the capabilities we possess as spirits encased in human bodies, we can cast aside these unfounded fears to see the truth. Your patients receive comfort from you because you are emanating a gentle, enlightened aura. If this were not the case, you would find your patients becoming upset or feeling agitated when they are near you.

Young children are more capable of psychic perception and are more open to metaphysical experiences than adults. They feel free to talk or play with spirits and discuss memories of their past lives. Children's perceptions are not limited by practical thinking or rigid ideas about what is and is not possible.

When young children are clearly drawn to some people while fearing others, it's because they are listening to their instincts and intuition, which operate unhindered when we're young. It is only when we get older and have been admonished or encouraged to ignore our inner voice and adopt someone else's opinions that we start to lose our ability to see the auric lights that surround each and every one of us.

When people work in the medical field and they are surrounded by patients who are very ill, their auras tend to be amplified simply by virtue of the spiritual aspects of the work they are doing. Though an illness might be centered in the physical, the most healing aspect of your work is the spiritual and emotional care you give to your patients.

I am certain you have witnessed amazing miracles in your work, which is another testament to how your healing and spiritual aura soothes and delights everyone you meet. When you bring hope and joy to others just via your presence, you are activating the light and aura within them, which facilitates healing.

Instead of worrying about this phenomenon, embrace it! Then it will grow stronger, which will make the work you do even more effective and rewarding.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.