Spiritual Healing Practices for the Ones Who’ve Survived What Should’ve Killed Them

You survived the thing.

Now you’re trying to feel safe inside your body again.
Now you’re learning how to love the skin that betrayal lived in.
Now you’re choosing healing that doesn’t erase what happened — but integrates it.
This blog is for you.

Let me say this loud and clear:
Your healing is sacred.
It is not performance art. It is not pretty. It is not perfect.
And it sure as hell doesn’t follow anyone else’s timeline.

This is for the ones who’ve had to rebuild themselves from the soul out.
The ones whose trauma started in childhood, but whose power — real, spiritual, ancient power — is still intact.

So here are the spiritual healing practices that have held me.
Not as quick fixes. Not as aesthetic moments. But as ritual medicine.
As ways to remember that I’ve always been divine.

𓆃 1. Ancestral Altar Work

Why: Because you’re not healing alone. You come from a long line of women who held pain in their hips and still birthed life.
How: Build a small altar with water, fire, and something from the Earth. Speak their names if you know them. Sit with them even if you don’t. Ask for guidance. Ask for rest.
Affirmation:
“I heal with those who came before me. I am the answered prayer.”

𓆃 2. Body-Based Prayer (Somatic Rituals)

Why: Because trauma lives in the body. And your body deserves to be heard, not just healed.
How: Put your hands on your belly, your chest, your thighs — wherever memory lingers. Breathe. Cry. Scream. Laugh. Let sound and stillness move through you like prayer.
Affirmation:
“This body is mine. This body is holy. This body belongs to no one but me.”

𓆃 3. Moon Blood Reclamation

Why: Because your womb space remembers everything. And reclaiming your cycle is reclaiming your rhythm.
How: Collect your menstrual blood (or honor its memory if you no longer bleed). Offer it back to the Earth. Write a letter to your womb. Apologize. Thank her. Reconnect.
Affirmation:
“My womb is not a wound. My womb is a portal.”

𓆃 4. Spiritual Bathing & Water Rituals

Why: Because water cleanses what words cannot.
How: Bathe with herbs like mugwort, rose, lavender, or rue. Pray into the water. Cry into it. Wash yourself like you’re washing away every lie ever spoken over you.
Affirmation:
“I release what is not mine. I rise in what is.”

𓆃 5. Name Work: Calling Back the Self

Why: Because you were called everything but divine.
How: Say your name out loud every day like it’s sacred — because it is. Rename yourself if needed. Add a title. Speak to yourself like you’re the High Priestess of your own lineage.
Affirmation:
“I name myself whole. I name myself worthy. I name myself home.”

𓆃 6. Journaling as a Portal, Not a Diary

Why: Because your story deserves a witness — even if it’s just you.
How: Write to your inner child. Write to your future self. Write letters you never sent. Write spells. Write grief. Write joy. Write the truth without apology.
Prompt:

• What part of me is still waiting to be believed?

• What wisdom lives beneath my wounds?

• What am I ready to release?

𓆃 7. Matriarchal Devotion & Feminine Sovereignty Practices

Why: Because this world is not neutral. And your softness is not weakness.
How: Study sacred feminine figures — Yemaya, Oshun, Sekhmet, Mary Magdalene, Spider Woman. Choose one. Sit with her. Ask what she wants to teach you.
Affirmation:
“I no longer shrink to survive. I expand to be seen.”

𓆃 8. Spiritual Protection & Energetic Boundaries

Why: Because healing without protection is how we re-wound ourselves.
How: Wear obsidian. Carry Florida Water. Pray protection into your home and over your spirit. Cut cords that don’t serve you. Be unapologetic about who you no longer allow access to.
Affirmation:
“I am cloaked in divine protection. No harm may cross my threshold.”

𓆃 9. Sacred Solitude & Soft Isolation

Why: Because you’re not antisocial — you’re recalibrating.
How: Take time away from the noise. Unplug. Detach from people who exhaust you. Let your own energy fill the room.
Affirmation:
“My solitude is not empty. It is full of me.”

𓆃 10. Rage Ceremonies (Letting the Fire Speak)

Why: Because your rage is sacred.
How: Go into the woods. Into the shower. Into your car. Scream. Stomp. Write your anger down and burn it. Rage is not destruction — it’s release.
Affirmation:
“I am allowed to feel everything. My rage is a form of truth.”

Final Reflection:

You’ve always known.
Even when the language was missing.
Even when the world tried to silence your knowing.

You weren’t weird. You were wild.
You weren’t broken. You were intact.
You weren’t worthless. You were worshipped — by ancestors, by Spirit, by the Earth itself.

So let the healing be yours. Let it be slow. Let it be messy. Let it be powerful.

And when the shame tries to speak, remind it:

“I survived. And now I remember who I am.”