Reclaiming Your Joy After Trauma: Energetic and Spiritual Techniques for Deep Healing

Laurie Teixeira and Jari de Jesus
Aug 31
3 min read

Have you ever felt like your joy disappeared after going through something painful? Laughter may feel distant, your body heavy, and life less vibrant even long after the experience has passed. Trauma can create a deep disconnection from joy, leaving many to wonder if they will ever feel lightness again.

The Energetic Impact of Trauma

Trauma doesn’t just live in your thoughts or emotions. It leaves an imprint on the body and energy field. It can create blockages, stagnation, or a lingering sense of heaviness. You may feel drained without reason or find yourself stuck in sadness. On a physical level, trauma can activate survival states that keep the body on guard, limiting your ability to fully relax, connect, and open to joy.

Why Joy Feels Out of Reach

When trauma imprints fear, grief, or despair, those energies override lighter emotions. The body and spirit prioritize protection over openness, pleasure, and creativity. Until this stored energy is gently released, joy can feel unsafe or out of reach.

Energetic Techniques to Reclaim Joy

1. Energy Clearing Rituals

Clearing stagnant energy can create space for joy to flow again. One way is through cleansing rituals using smoke, breath, or visualization. You might imagine a soft light washing through your body from head to toe, carrying away heaviness and pain, leaving you lighter and more open.

2. Chakra Rebalancing for Joy

Certain energy centers carry joy and love, yet trauma can block them. The sacral area (lower belly) connects with creativity and pleasure, while the heart (center of chest) radiates love and compassion. Visualize these centers glowing brightly, orange for the sacral and green for the heart, spinning smoothly and filling you with warmth and vitality.

3. Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)

Tapping on specific points of the body while speaking words of safety and acceptance can help release trauma. For example, while tapping gently on the side of your hand, you might affirm: “Even though joy feels far away, I choose to open myself to love and healing.” Moving through points near the eyebrows, eyes, and collarbone while affirming calmness helps signal to the body that it is safe to let go.

Spiritual Practices to Deepen Healing

1. Prayer and Surrender

Offering your pain to a higher power or divine love can help ease its weight. Simple words like, “Please take this pain and guide me back to peace and joy,” open the heart to support beyond yourself.

2. Nature Immersion as Sacred Reconnection

Spending time in nature is a natural healer. Walking among trees, sitting by water, or feeling the earth beneath your feet restores balance, calms the nervous system, and reconnects you with a sense of wholeness.

3. Inner Child Meditation

Connecting with your younger self can unlock hidden joy. Visualize your child-self in a safe, loving place. Embrace them, tell them they are safe now, and allow a sense of innocence and playfulness to return to your heart.

Integrating Joyful Energetics Into Daily Life

Healing joy takes practice and gentle repetition. Here are ways to weave it into daily life:

Morning: Begin with grounding, gratitude, or sun-gazing.
Daytime: Pause to breathe deeply when stress arises.
Evening: Release the day’s heaviness with cleansing or meditation.
Weekly: Dedicate time to energy healing practices, journaling, or time in nature.

Simple rituals like self-reiki or mindful breathing can help clear blockages and restore natural energy flow.

When Healing Becomes Avoidance

It is important not to use spiritual practices to escape pain. Healing does not mean ignoring wounds. It means holding both pain and joy with compassion. Facing the shadows allows light to enter more fully.

In Summary

Trauma may dim your joy, but it cannot erase it. Beneath layers of fear and grief, joy is still present, waiting to be rediscovered. With consistent energetic and spiritual practices, you can slowly open the pathways back to lightness and hope.

Ask yourself: What is one small way I can invite joy back into my life today?

Your joy has not left. It is waiting for you to return.

An Invitation

I invite you to join me this week in our Quantum Healing 168 journey: Transforming Internal Narratives: Dismantling the Voice of Shame (08/31–09/06/25). Together, we’ll explore gentle ways to soften the critic, nurture the inner child, and create healing that ripples through generations.

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With love,

Laurie Teixeira

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