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How Healing Past Trauma Can Unlock Peace, Purpose, and Happiness

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Annyx Day is the founder and CEO of Living Life Above, Moving Yourself Forward, a RTT Practitioner/Certified Hypnotherapist, and a RTC Success Coach. She helps and guides her clients excel in their personal and professional lives.

Executive Contributor Annyx Day, B.A., M.A.

What if the very pain you’ve carried is not meant to define you, but to elevate you into a life of deeper meaning, peace, and purpose? This article explores how healing past trauma can unlock not only personal transformation, but also the ability to stand grounded in your truth and become a source of light and inspiration for others.


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What if healing your past trauma is the key that opens the gateway to living your meaningful, peaceful, grounded, and happy life while being a beacon of light for others?


What if we were meant to rise above the trauma we have lived through and not stay emotionally stunted at our first traumatic experience? What if we were to see the amount of traumatic events we have lived through as equivalent to the levels we are called to rise to in our lives? Did you feel those shivers up your spine? I did. What if one of its purposes is to build resilience and to demonstrate to others that healing from past trauma can be done? What if we saw obstacles and challenges as medals of honor instead of things that have beaten us down? Has anyone on this planet not experienced any trauma? Most people, if not everyone, have experienced some form of trauma in their lives at one point or another. Some people have had more trauma than others, yes. But what if we tapped into our power to help others who have gone through similar challenges and obstacles by virtue of having healed ourselves?


Healing past trauma


I am choosing to write about this because discovering Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT®) and Rapid Transformational Coaching® (RTC®) five years ago has helped me truly heal from deep wounds and life’s injustices and has been the catalyst to all the profound changes in my life. Now, I pay it forward by inspiring and helping others heal from similar challenges and obstacles such as past trauma, PTSD, grief, postpartum depression, anxiety, and stress. I spoke about this in detail on a recent podcast with “The Female CEO,” which aired on May 1st, 2026, and you are cordially invited to listen to it.


If something becomes the catalyst to changing someone’s life for the better, then why is seeking help still taboo? More people should know about and experience RTT® and RTC® methodologies. The more clients I work with, the more privileged and honored I feel to be part of this deep healing revolution, and my clients’ profound results fuel my mission of helping and guiding as many people as I can.


I have always asked myself, why is it called “Mental Health” instead of “Maintaining a Healthy Mind”? This is why I choose to use the latter term, which I coined, when I communicate with my clients. I would argue there is an underlying negative connotation to “Mental Health” in that there is a heavy burden and even judgment placed on someone who is affected by or trying to deal with life’s injustices.


A “mental health” issue sounds like there is something wrong with a person instead of focusing on what happened in their lives that made them feel the way they feel and trying to heal from that while supporting and uplifting the person so much so that they see and feel their worth and that they matter in this world.


Evidently, this is what I do. I go to the root cause and reason of my clients’ challenges and obstacles, help them understand why they feel the way they feel, help them heal emotionally from these injustices, and help my clients stand in their power moving forward so they can live the lives they were meant to live.


The gateway to living your meaningful, peaceful, grounded, and happy life


In the modern healing community, this is what we do. We help and guide clients to heal from their past trauma so they can live a meaningful, peaceful, grounded, and happy life. Put simply, profound root cause healing allows for a regulated nervous system. A regulated nervous system invites a life filled with meaning, peace, being grounded, and happiness.


Therefore, what if we focused on the objective of “maintaining a healthy mind” for ourselves by healing what was unjust in our lives? Evidently, meaning, purpose, peace, freedom, being grounded, and rediscovering happiness come easily and effortlessly once you heal with RTT®. Applying these virtues to your life is not forced. In fact, they become by-products of profoundly healing one’s wounds.


I invite you to think of this for a moment. We were all born with a healthy and pure mind. But somewhere along the way, we have learned otherwise, either through learned behaviours, by witnessing unhealthy situations, or worse, being a victim of something horrific. In essence, my job as an RTT® Practitioner and Certified Hypnotherapist is to help others truly heal from past trauma and then help them shift their mindset so they can move on with their lives from a place of resilience, determination, grace, inner peace, and pure freedom. As an RTC® Success Coach, I guide them in seeing their future in a completely different light, and I teach them how to manifest the life they want.


Over the past four years, I have met and helped so many amazing people who have experienced such trauma. These are people who are already amazingly resilient, and they came to me because they were determined to live a life full of inner peace and freedom from what they had to endure.


Being a beacon of light for others


I am dedicating this article to all my clients over the last four years because they are also proof that there is incredible merit in healing one’s wounds, getting to the other side, and living the life you were meant to live. I am a huge advocate of celebrating those who heal from their past. Whether I still communicate with my previous clients or not, I celebrate my clients every single day by thinking about them, their healing journey, and sending them positive vibes every morning.


I truly believe our duty is to help others, teach what we have come to know, inspire others by leading by example, and encourage those who have lost their way. Reap the rewards of healing oneself. Be a beacon of light for others. Pay it forward. There is no greater gift than knowing you have truly helped someone.


If healing oneself is something you wish to explore, if you are ready to heal your past trauma, or if you have started your healing journey and want to experience RTT® sessions with me to fast track your healing in less than 6 months, contact me here or 613-797-8096, and I will be honored to help and guide you. If you would like to know how I have helped my clients heal themselves, please read my clients’ testimonials here.


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Annyx Day, B.A., M.A., RTT Hypnotherapist and RTC Success Coach

Annyx Day is bridging the gap between people’s personal and professional excellence. Regardless of the various careers she upheld, one theme always stood out to her. Why do people do what they do in their personal as well as professional lives, and what is behind people’s behaviours? Her life’s purpose has always been to help people and to inspire people to move beyond life’s obstacles and challenges and to live a better, more evolved life. Annyx is the founder and CEO of Living Life Above, Moving Yourself Forward, a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) Practitioner/Certified Hypnotherapist, and a Rapid Transformational Coaching (RTC) Success Coach.

This article is published in collaboration with Brainz Magazine’s network of global experts, carefully selected to share real, valuable insights.

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