Welcome to Be With Melinda.
This meditation is an invitation to gently unwind the residue of trauma.
Not by revisiting the past,
But by allowing your body to remember what safety feels like.
Trauma lives in the body,
Not only in the mind.
And healing begins when the body learns that the danger has passed,
And that presence and peace is possible.
Imagine now there is nothing to force,
And nothing to fix.
Just breathe awareness and compassion for what has carried you this far.
As we begin,
Find a comfortable position,
Sitting or lying down,
And let your body settle into the support beneath you.
If at any point you feel overwhelmed,
Open your eyes,
Take a deeper breath,
And remind yourself that you are safe in this moment.
Now let's begin.
Take a grounding breath.
Not a perfect one,
Just a real one.
Let your body know it's safe enough to be here,
Right now.
As you breathe,
Notice the parts of you that have been holding tension.
The chin,
The jaw,
The shoulders,
The chest,
The belly.
You don't have to fix anything.
Simply let awareness meet the places that have been guarding you.
When you've lived through what overwhelmed you,
Your body learned how to keep you alive.
It stored the shock,
The silence,
The freezing,
Not as failure,
But as protection.
This practice isn't about remembering everything that happened.
It's about giving your system permission to release what it no longer needs to carry.
You're not broken.
You simply adapted.
And now you're learning to live beyond the adaptation.
Bring attention to your breath again.
Feel the inhale widen your ribs,
And the exhale soften your spine.
Sense the weight of your body supported by the ground beneath you.
If images or feelings arise,
Let them drift through like clouds.
If nothing comes,
That's also healing.
It means your system is resting.
You're allowing the body to complete what it couldn't finish before.
Whisper to yourself,
It's safe to soften.
It's safe to feel a little more space.
It's safe to release what's ready to go.
This is how de-traumatization happens.
Not in remembering the story,
But in reteaching the body that the danger has passed.
Let your breath settle into a calm rhythm.
Notice the stillness beneath the breath.
The quiet pulse of safety returning.
You don't need to know what's leaving.
You just need to trust that the release is happening.
Because the body remembers how to heal.
And you are remembering how to live.
To live into that healing.
And to de-traumatize and reset your nervous system.
And so it is.
Many blessings.
