Finding Your Power and Beauty After Trauma
- Aug 15, 2025
- 3 min read
By Sonia Rodrigues, Psychotherapist and Founder of Transition to Wellness
If you’ve been through trauma, you know how disorienting it can feel. Suddenly, the world no longer makes sense. Who you were before the pain may feel like a distant memory, and who you are now might feel like someone you don’t quite recognize. As a psychotherapist who has spent over 25 years walking beside women through their healing journeys, I want you to know this: your story does not end in the moment you were hurt. In fact, something incredibly powerful can begin right there- a moment where you can revive your power and your beauty.
Healing from trauma isn’t about erasing the pain. It’s about learning how to live in a new way—one that honors what you’ve been through while helping you reconnect with your strength, your voice, and your beauty.
The Myth of Brokenness
So many women come to me believing they are broken. Trauma has a way of convincing us that we are too damaged to move forward. But here’s the truth: you are not broken—you are wounded and wounds can heal.
In the process of that healing, you may even discover parts of yourself that are stronger, wiser, and more deeply alive than ever before.
There is beauty in your courage. There is power in your survival. And there is lots of possibility in your future.
Reclaiming Your Power
After trauma, it’s common to feel powerless. Something happened that you didn’t choose, that you couldn’t control. But reclaiming your power doesn’t mean pretending everything is okay. It means learning to listen to your needs, set boundaries, speak your truth, and make choices that reflect your worth.
Power doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it whispers and sounds like this, “I’m allowed to rest.” Or, “I don’t have to do this all at once.” Or, “I matter.”
Every time you choose to care for yourself, to ask for help, or to say no, you are stepping back into your power.
Recognizing Your Beauty
There’s a quiet kind of beauty that emerges from women who have done the hard work of healing. It’s not always visible on the outside, but it radiates from within. It’s the beauty of a woman who has learned to trust herself again. A woman who carries her scars with dignity and softness. A woman who knows her worth not because someone told her, but because she claimed it for herself.
Beauty after trauma is not about perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about living from a place of authenticity, vulnerability, and strength.
Finding the Right Support
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation. Don’t try to do it all on your own, find the right supports and connect with people who will support you and help you rise above. One of the reasons why I created Transition to Wellness was to create a space for women to feel supported, empowered, and understood as they move through trauma and into a new chapter of life. Together, we work to rebuild a sense of safety, clarity, and purpose. You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need a safe place to begin.
The Next Chapter
Your pain is part of your story, but it is not the whole story. The next chapter is yours to write—and it can be one of power, beauty, and wholeness. Even now, especially now, you are building upon who you were and creating a new chapter for yourself, stronger and more resilient than before.
And that, in itself, is something truly beautiful.
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