The Slow Train That Never Lets You Off

Tara Gallagher Author

Trauma isn’t the story. It’s what your body’s still holding.

You’ve journaled it.

Processed it.
Talked about it in circles.

You can name the trauma.
Trace the patterns.
Understand the “why” behind every reaction.

And still - your body stays stuck.

You’re not broken.
You’re just still riding the slow train.

The slow train always takes the long way

You know the route.
The same mental stations.

That moment you freeze up mid-sentence.
The breath that catches before you even walk into the room.
The looped conversation you keep replaying - long after it ended.

You keep hoping this will be the ride that finally gets you there.
But it just keeps circling.

Because insight isn’t the same as integration.
And the nervous system doesn’t take orders from awareness.

Talk therapy gave you the map.

But your body’s still holding the ticket.

That’s why you can breathe yourself calm at night
- and still wake up with your jaw clenched.
That’s why you can know better
- and still snap, shut down, or shrink back.
That’s why you feel stuck
- even though you’ve done everything right.

Because the body can’t release what it never felt safe enough to process.
And healing won’t land if it never reaches the tissue.

So what actually gets you off the train?

Not more mindset work.
Not more analysis.
Not another loop around the track.

It’s safety. In the body.
The kind your system never had access to.
The kind that helps you feel - and finally finish - what your body’s been carrying for years.

Inside Self Elevation Coaching

This is the space where we stop looping pain.
Where the nervous system softens, the subconscious re-patterns,
and survival stops driving the train.

If you’ve been stuck in high-functioning freeze,
Still shape-shifting to stay safe,
Still waiting for your body to catch up with your awareness -

Self Elevation is where it happens.

Not because we tell the story again.
But because we give the body what it’s always needed to end it.

It’s time to step off.

If your system’s still scanning the tracks…
If you’re tired of feeling like healing just means coping better…

👉 Click here to explore Self Elevation Coaching and book a call to apply.

Categories: : Life After Narcissistic Abuse, Nervous System & Trauma