There’s a point in healing where things start to feel… different. Not fixed. Not perfect. Just different.
You’re not spiraling like you used to. You can hold more. You cry more freely, but you’re not drowning in it. You’re not doing anything spiritual, and yet, something inside you is undeniably shifting.
It’s subtle at first, the way the light hits the trees. The way your body exhales when no one’s around. The way silence feels like company, rather than emptiness.
And then it hits you:
Maybe this isn’t just trauma healing.
Maybe this is the beginning of something deeper.
Maybe this is the awakening you weren’t looking for, but have always needed.
No One Tells You That Healing Can Break You Open
Most people think spiritual awakening comes from a yoga mat, a sound bath, or a moment with a mountaintop guru. But for many of us, it came from a different place.
It came after the panic attacks. After the relationship that shattered you. After the years spent holding everyone else together while falling apart inside. It came after therapy, somatics, breathwork, meditation, all of it. It came not as a light switch, but as a slow unraveling of who you thought you were.
I didn’t find my connection to spirit in a retreat center.
I found it the night I was pacing outside under the night sky, thinking, “I can’t keep doing this.”
I found it when my husband, a combat veteran with severe PTSD, looked at me and said he didn’t want to live anymore, and I had no choice but to meet it all head-on.
I found it the day I realized I was doing everything right, yet still felt hollow inside.
This is the part no one prepares you for:
Healing doesn’t just restore you. Sometimes, it remakes you.
And that remaking? That’s not just mental or emotional. It’s spiritual.
Your Nervous System Is the Portal, Not the Problem
Here’s the wild thing most spiritual circles skip: the nervous system isn’t separate from awakening. It is the gateway.
When you’ve been through trauma, especially ongoing, quiet trauma like emotional neglect, chronic stress, or relationships that made you shrink your body, it adapts. It protects you. It armors you.
But healing that trauma isn’t about thinking your way out of it. It’s about feeling again, letting your body unwind, and letting your breath return, all while slowly letting your guard down, so it doesn’t feel like death.
As that happens, something beautiful occurs:
Your brain shifts. Your patterns shift. Your perception shifts.
You stop scanning for danger and start sensing beauty.
And in those moments, even if they’re fleeting, you remember:
You’re not just a body.
You’re not just a brain.
You’re a soul who’s been fighting to come back home.
That moment where your body feels safe and you feel connected to something bigger? That’s not just regulation. That’s resurrection.
Awakening Isn’t Glamorous. It’s Grimy, Honest, and Holy.
Let’s be real, this isn’t the Instagram version of awakening.
It’s not all downloads and good vibes. It’s sobbing in the shower because your inner child is finally being heard. It’s choosing not to chase people who’ve never chosen you. It’s learning how to stay with discomfort instead of bypassing it with “love and light.”
Most people think awakening is about rising above pain.
But what if it’s actually about going all the way into it and still finding light there?
At Remeria, our non-profit rooted in real-world healing, we’ve sat with combat veterans who’ve been to hell and back. They didn’t need sage or mantras. They needed breath. Safety. Stillness. And slowly, once their nervous systems began to soften, something else emerged:
Hope.
Meaning.
A connection that wasn’t given to them through dogma, it rose from within.
And that’s what we’ve found over and over again, whether it’s someone who’s worked with plant medicine, someone healing from years of invisible trauma, or someone who’s simply tired of performing wellness without feeling any peace:
When we heal at the root, the spiritual awakens on its own.
It’s Not a Coincidence, It’s a Sequence
Science is catching up to what we’ve always known in our bones:
As trauma clears, the brain literally changes.
The parts of your brain responsible for self-awareness, awe, connection, and creativity light back up.
That’s not “just healing.”
That’s reconnection.
That’s you remembering what it feels like to be part of something again.
And no, you don’t have to call it God. Or Spirit. Or Source.
Call it life.
Call it your soul.
Call it “finally not feeling numb anymore.”
Whatever you call it, that’s the awakening.
And if you’re in it now, you’re not broken.
You’re becoming.
We Built Remeria for This Very Moment in You
Remeria wasn’t born out of marketing plans or personal branding. It came from lived experience. From witnessing what trauma really does and what healing truly requires.
We’re not here to put a bow on pain or sell you spiritual highs.
We’re here to meet the middle that raw, in-between space where the healing isn’t finished but something deeper is breaking through. Where you don’t need to fix yourself, but you do need support to keep softening. To keep coming home.
Remeria supports healing through nervous system work, somatic tools, spiritual reclamation, and authentic human connection. It’s for the people who have tried everything and still feel like something is missing.
That something?
It might just be you.
Coming back.
Slowly.
On purpose.
If you’re navigating that blurry space between “I’m not who I was” and “I don’t know who I’m becoming,” this is your invitation.
Not to fix.
Not to strive.
But to keep walking.
To let healing keep unfolding.
To let your body keep softening.
To let your soul, maybe for the first time, actually lead.
We’re here for it. All of it.
Learn more about Remeria and how we support trauma healing and spiritual reconnection.
