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Honoring Your Emotions Through Trauma: Natural Pathways for Healing and Resilience

Beyond Possibilities

Grief, loss, and life’s hardest traumas can feel overwhelming, leaving the heart heavy and the mind clouded. During these times, it’s not about pushing emotions away but learning how to honor and process them. By combining natural approaches—such as breathwork, journaling, meditation, energy healing, and aromatherapy—we can create supportive spaces for healing. These practices, rooted in both tradition and research, help release what weighs us down while building emotional resilience.

Energy Healing for Emotional Release

Many people hold unresolved emotions in the body, leading to stress, pain, and imbalance. Energy healing techniques like the Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code are designed to release these emotional burdens.

  • Emotion Code focuses on identifying and clearing trapped emotions that may contribute to anxiety, sadness, or tension. In a study with 146 participants, significant reductions in self-reported depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms were observed after sessions with this modality, though more controlled research is needed (Gelb et al., 2021).
  • Body Code expands this approach to include physical, energetic, and structural imbalances that can affect overall wellness.
  • Belief Code addresses limiting subconscious beliefs that may keep people stuck in cycles of grief or pain. Once emotional barriers are released, healthier thought patterns can emerge.

While scientific validation continues to grow, these approaches align with widely accepted psychological concepts of mind-body connection and the importance of processing emotions rather than storing them internally (Bucci, 2025).

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Natural Tools for Emotional Healing

Breathwork

Breathwork helps regulate the nervous system and calm emotional reactivity. By slowing and deepening the breath, the body shifts from a fight-or-flight state into a calmer, more restorative mode.

Journaling

Writing out feelings provides clarity and helps organize overwhelming emotions. Journaling offers a safe space to name experiences, uncover insights, and begin reframing grief into meaning.

Meditation

Meditation practices—whether focused attention, mindfulness, or loving-kindness—help reduce distress and promote emotional stability. Neuroimaging studies show that meditation activates brain regions linked to empathy and regulation, such as the insula and anterior cingulate cortex (Fox et al., 2016).

Aromatherapy with doTERRA CPTG® Essential Oils*

Scent has a direct influence on the limbic system, the part of the brain that governs emotions and memories. Using doTERRA Certified Pure Tested Grade (CPTG®) essential oils can provide powerful emotional support during times of grief:

  • Console® Comforting Blend (Rose, Ylang Ylang, Frankincense, Sandalwood) offers calming, balancing support when sadness feels heavy.
  • Forgive® Renewing Blend (Nootka Tree, Thyme, Melissa) encourages self-compassion and renewal during emotional recovery.
  • Cheer® Uplifting Blend (Wild Orange, Cinnamon Bark, Star Anise) sparks optimism and helps shift lingering gloom.
  • Bergamot Essential Oil has shown promise in reducing PTSD-related symptoms such as sleep disruption and negative mood in first responders (Daniel, 2023).
  • Lime Essential Oil has been shown to imbue the soul with a zest for life and promotes courage. It is renewing, energizing and purify. Paired with other oils it magnifies their effect.
  • Balance® Grounding Blend The warm, woody aroma of doTERRA Balance Grounding Blend helps create a calming, quieting environment as you consider all aspects of life: relationships, work, fitness, health, and emotional well-being.
  • Peace® Reassuming Blend A gentle blend of floral and mint oils, doTERRA Peace Reassuring Blend serves as a positive reminder that you don’t have to be perfect to find peace.

From a biochemical perspective, compounds like linalool (Lavender, Clary Sage) and beta-pinene (Lemon, Lime, White Fir) interact with neurotransmitter systems linked to serotonin and dopamine, potentially easing anxious or sad feelings (doTERRA, n.d.-b).

While results vary, aromatherapy remains a gentle, non-invasive complement to emotional healing practices. Safety should always be prioritized, including dilution for topical use and sourcing oils from reputable providers such as doTERRA (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2024).

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Bringing It All Together

Honoring emotions during grief and trauma means allowing space for release, reflection, and renewal. Breathwork, journaling, meditation, energy healing, and essential oils each offer unique pathways toward peace. Together, they create a holistic framework for processing heavy feelings while building resilience for the road ahead.

Healing is not about forgetting loss—it’s about finding light in the darkness and carrying forward with strength and compassion.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Published by Beyond Possibilities

I learned about Energy Healing through my personal counseling, mentoring, coaching sessions and I use those techniques to support my healing from physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. I also use them to support the feelings for sadness, despair, and fear. In 2011 my sister introduced me to Essential Oils to support my knees after surgery. From there I started learning more about the benefits of using them to support my emotional well being as well as my physical well being. In October of 2012 I became a doTerra Wellness Adovate. In 2014 I became Certified as an AromaDance Instructor and Certified in AromaTouch Technique. In January of 2018 I became Certified Essential Oil Coach. In May of 2020 I completed my doTerra Oil Specialist Certification and my Emotion Code Practitioner Certification.

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