Why Most Trauma Healing Doesn’t Work (And What Actually Does)

Trauma, Triggers & True Healing: A Journey to Rise Above Your Story

What if the pain you’ve carried for decades didn’t have to define you anymore?

In this deeply honest conversation, I sat down with Sandra Cooze — a certified trauma healer, intuitive mentor, Reiki master teacher, and published author — to unpack what real trauma healing can look like, and why so many of us still feel “stuck” despite years of therapy, self-help, or spiritual work.

Sandra’s journey is one many will recognize: childhood abuse, repeated sexual assault, relentless bullying, and being dismissed or unheard by people meant to protect her. Yet today, she stands as living proof that your trauma doesn’t get the final say — you do.

✨ Your Healing Is a Journey, Not a Lifetime Sentence

Sandra reminds us: “Trauma is a story. But it’s the emotion attached to the story that keeps us in pain.”

It’s the triggers — those sudden reactions, that inner panic, that old shame or unworthiness that rises up — that show us what needs healing.

Energy work like Reiki helped Sandra move the heavy, sticky energy that conventional talk therapy couldn’t fully reach. She learned that healing happens on three levels: the physical, mental, and energetic. Until we work with all three, something often feels “missing.”

She shared:

“I came to realize that you can only help someone heal to the level you have healed yourself.”

This is powerful for those of us guiding others: whether you’re a coach, a healer, or a conscious entrepreneur, your own healing expands your capacity to hold space for someone else’s.

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🔑 4 Keys to Healing Trauma Consciously

If you’re on this journey yourself — or support others through it — here are Sandra’s four pillars for real, lasting healing:

1️⃣ Work with someone who has done their own deep healing.
Healing from trauma isn’t just theory — it’s lived wisdom.

2️⃣ Release trauma on every level: physical, mental, and energetic.
Talk therapy is valuable, but moving the stuck energy is essential.

3️⃣ Address ancestral & generational trauma.
Our family patterns and beliefs often carry echoes of unhealed pain.

4️⃣ Fully participate in your own healing.
A true healer is a guide, not a fixer. You have to do the brave work of leaning in, feeling, and releasing.

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🌿 Reiki: Energy Work that Moves Mountains

Sandra’s story shows how powerful energy healing can be.
Whether you’re skeptical or already intuitively drawn to Reiki, it’s worth exploring. Even simple tools like working with crystals, intention-setting, or distant Reiki can help shift what feels “unshiftable.”

I loved when Sandra said: “The beautiful thing about authenticity is it grows with you.”

When you release old triggers and unhook from painful stories, you expand your authenticity. It’s not about becoming someone new — it’s about remembering who you really are beneath the pain.

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💫 A Brave Invitation to Rise Above Your Story

If you’re “fed up” with old pain running the show, Sandra offers one-on-one trauma healing that combines Reiki, intuitive guidance, and practical tools to finally break free. She even has a free 3-video mini course on how to start releasing your own triggers.

Because sometimes the first step is simply learning that you can let go — that you don’t have to carry it forever.

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✨ Want to learn more?
Visit Rise Above Your Story to connect with Sandra, book a free consultation, or explore her book Journey to Yourself: How to Heal from Trauma — the first in her trilogy.

Remember, you are not your trauma.
You are the soul who gets to rise above it.
You are the change the world is waiting for.

With love & light,