Healing Is The Hustle

How to Heal Emotional Wounds Like Physical Ones


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In this episode, we dive into why emotional wounds require the same care as physical injuries—and how to heal them:


Physical vs. Emotional Wounds:

  • Physical wounds are visible and treated immediately; emotional wounds are invisible but fester for years.
  • Both trigger pain signals, but emotional pain often lingers, causing anxiety, shame, and generational trauma.


The Cost of Unprocessed Trauma:

  • Unhealed emotions compound over time, erupting as anger, self-sabotage, or harm to loved ones.
  • Trauma can be inherited epigenetically, repeating cycles of dysfunction.


Steps to Heal:

  1. Feel to heal: Allow yourself to experience suppressed emotions (cry, journal, meditate).
  2. Name the pain: Articulate how your body reacts (e.g., “My chest tightens when I feel betrayed”).
  3. Revisit memories safely: Use meditation/mindfulness to process buried trauma without judgment.
  4. Break the cycle: Compassionately confront inherited patterns to protect future generations.


Personal Journey:

  • I share how healing transformed his rage toward his father into gratitude, freeing him from resentment.


Takeaway: Healing emotional wounds is messy but liberating. By tending to them intentionally, you reclaim peace and stop trauma’s ripple effect.

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Healing Is The HustleBy Jay Chanthalangsy