How Reiki Can Help Trauma Recovery
Healing is a journey of returning home to yourself—reconnecting with the wisdom, love, and wholeness that have always been within you. Trauma happens when we experience something overwhelming that our nervous system wasn’t able to process at the time. Rather than moving through us, these experiences become stored in our body and energy system, shaping our emotions, behaviors, and sense of self. Over time, unresolved trauma can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves, trapped in cycles of fear, self-doubt, and dysregulation.
Reiki offers a gentle yet powerful way to support healing by restoring balance on all levels—physical, emotional, and spiritual.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is Life Force energy guided by ‘Source’ intelligence. When we channel Reiki, it naturally flows to the areas of our being most in need of healing, without requiring direction from the practitioner or recipient. We can, however, set an intention for how we would like Reiki to support us, and this can yield powerful results.
Reiki works deeply on the nervous system and emotional body, helping to dissolve the imprints of past trauma and gently release stored emotional pain. It can bring a sense of safety and deep relaxation, allowing the body to shift out of survival mode and into a state of rest, regulation, and self-healing. Reiki also helps to heal core emotional wounds, release limiting beliefs, and support ancestral healing, offering a pathway to lasting transformation.
How Reiki Supports Trauma Recovery
When we experience trauma, our nervous system can become stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses, making it difficult to feel grounded, present, and at ease. Reiki supports trauma healing by helping us regulate the nervous system and cultivate a sense of safety from within.
Among its many benefits, Reiki can help:
Facilitate deep relaxation in the body, easing tension and stress
Balance a dysregulated nervous system, helping you shift from survival mode into a state of calm and ease
Heal emotional wounds and clear limiting beliefs that may be keeping you stuck in old patterns
Release stored trauma gently, without the need to relive painful experiences
Break free from inherited trauma and familial patterns, supporting ancestral healing
Support the release of addictions and unhealthy coping mechanisms, creating space for self-love and new, life-affirming habits
Join My Trauma-Informed Reiki Training for Women
If you feel called to explore Reiki for your own healing or to support others, I invite you to join my Trauma-Informed Reiki Level One Training for Women on April 5-6 in Ibiza.
This training is specifically designed for women on their healing journey, offering a sacred pause—a safe, nurturing space where you can reconnect with yourself, deepen your self-healing practice, and learn how to use Reiki to support trauma recovery for yourself or others in a way that is gentle, intuitive, and empowering.
Only 6 spaces available. Get in touch to reserve your place.
Online Training coming soon. Drop me a message here to let me know you’re interested.
