18/01/2026
🌈Understanding the Chakra System & the effects of trauma.
How trauma lives in the body and how we gently heal.
Trauma doesn’t just live in our memories it lives in the body, nervous system, and energy field.
The chakra system helps us understand where trauma can lodge and how healing can begin.
Let’s explore each chakra, how trauma can affect it, and gentle ways to nurture and strengthen balance.
🔴 Root Chakra (Safety & Survival)
Trauma impact:
• Fear, anxiety, hypervigilance
• Feeling unsafe or ungrounded
• Financial or housing insecurity
• Chronic tension in legs, hips, or lower back
🟠 Sacral Chakra (Emotions & Connection)
Trauma impact:
• Emotional numbness or overwhelm
• Shame, guilt, or disconnection
• Difficulty with pleasure or intimacy
• Creativity blocks
🟡 Solar Plexus Chakra (Power & Identity)
Trauma impact:
• Low self-worth
• Feeling powerless or controlled
• Anxiety, digestive issues
• Difficulty making decisions
💚 Heart Chakra (Love & Trust)
Trauma impact:
• Difficulty trusting others
• Emotional walls or over-giving
• Grief, heartbreak, abandonment wounds
🔵 Throat Chakra (Voice & Expression)
Trauma impact:
• Difficulty speaking needs or truth
• Fear of being judged or silenced
• Tight jaw, neck, or throat
🟣 Third Eye Chakra (Awareness & Insight)
Trauma impact:
• Confusion, dissociation
• Difficulty trusting intuition
• Overthinking or mental fog
⚪ Crown Chakra (Connection & Meaning)
Trauma impact:
• Disconnection from purpose
• Loss of faith or meaning
• Spiritual bypassing or collapse
🌿 A Trauma-Informed Reminder
Healing the chakras after trauma is not about forcing balance.
It’s about restoring safety first, then gently allowing energy to flow again.
✨ Regulation before revelation
✨ Safety before expansion
✨ Compassion before transformation
Your body and energy system are not broken — they adapted to survive.
And with the right support, they can heal.
Book your chakra healing and balance today to restore your body to feel regulated and calm your nervous system.
Holistic Trauma & Grief Healing with Paula Ann Darch
0400668075