Why Manifestation Won’t Work…

Until You Heal the Trauma Stored in Your Chakras

You’ve done the journaling. You’ve visualised it, scripted it, said your affirmations on repeat.

🕯️ You’ve lit the candles, raised your frequency, tried to stay “high vibe” even when life was falling apart around you.

Maybe you stuck with the technique for weeks. Maybe you gave it everything — just like they told you to — and still… nothing happened.

Or maybe you couldn’t stay consistent. Maybe it felt like you were forcing it. Like you were pretending to be positive while your body was screaming underneath it all.

⁉️ And now you’re wondering…Why isn’t this working? Let me tell you something I wish someone had told me when I first started all this: You can’t manifest what you want when your energy system is still full of unhealed trauma.

You can’t align with your desires if your body still doesn’t feel safe. And no amount of visualisation can override energy that’s stuck, suppressed, or overwhelmed.

But here’s the good news — once you start clearing the trauma that’s stored in your chakras, everything begins to shift. Manifestation becomes easier, more natural, and a whole lot more aligned.

Your Chakras Hold the Energy of Past

When people hear the word trauma, they often think it has to be something extreme — a major accident, abuse, loss, or a huge life-altering event. And while that absolutely can be the case, trauma isn’t always loud and obvious.

🤫 Sometimes, trauma is quiet. It’s subtle. It’s the buildup of small things over many years — the comments that chipped away at your confidence, the times you had to shrink yourself to avoid conflict, the feelings you pushed down because there was no space for them.

If you’re a sensitive person, this hits even harder. What might seem like “nothing” to someone else can leave a lasting mark on your nervous system and energy field.

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And when those experiences aren’t allowed to be felt, processed, and released… they don’t just disappear. They get stored.

And your chakras — the energy centres that govern everything from your safety and self-worth to your emotions and identity — are where that unprocessed energy tends to live.

🚫 Over time, this stuck energy becomes a block. You might not be able to see it, but you’ll feel it in your body, your emotions, your patterns, and your life.

The Chakras Where Trauma Loves to Hide

📢 /🤫Whether trauma was loud and in-your-face…Or quiet, subtle, and stretched out over years…

If it wasn’t felt, accepted, processed, and released — it didn’t leave, it's still sat in your body.

When trauma doesn’t move through you, it literally makes a home in your chakras — your energy centers — and starts blocking the flow of life force energy. And that life force energy? That’s exactly what you need to manifest what you want.

So until you allow yourself to process and release the trauma stored in your body, you're really going to struggle to manifest the life that you want. But don't worry, I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.

Here’s a list of HOW each of your chakras becomes blocked via some kind of trauma and how you might feel once this chakra becomes blocked:

🔴 Root Chakra

This chakra is all about safety, stability, and feeling grounded in life. Trauma that blocks this chakra often comes from:

🔴 Financial instability growing up or as an adult

🔴 Moving homes often or never feeling “settled”

🔴 Growing up in chaos or unpredictability

🔴 Parents who made you feel like your needs were “too much”

🔴 Not being emotionally or physically cared for as a child

Blocked root chakra symptoms:

🔴 Always anxious or hypervigilant

🔴 Trouble relaxing or trusting life

🔴 Constantly waiting for something to go wrong

🔴 Money never feels safe or consistent

🟠 Sacral Chakra

This chakra governs your emotions, creativity, relationships, and pleasure. Trauma here often looks like:

🟠 Being told you’re “too emotional” or “too sensitive”

🟠 Feeling like your emotions were inconvenient or unwanted

🟠 Caregivers who didn’t model emotional regulation 

🟠 Early rejection, abandonment, or cheating in relationships

🟠 Sexual shame or lack of body autonomy (including subtle violations)

Blocked sacral chakra symptoms:

🟠 Emotional numbness or overwhelm

🟠 Struggling to enjoy life or feel joy

🟠 Disconnect from your body or sexuality

🟠 Overgiving in relationships, losing yourself

🟠 Using food, substances, or fantasy to soothe emotional pain

If you’re starting to realise just how much these experiences have affected your energy — especially in your root and sacral chakras — you’re not alone. Most people have no idea how much unprocessed emotion they're carrying.

That’s exactly why I created my free chakra eBook. It walks you through the signs of imbalance in each chakra so you can figure out which ones are blocked in your body and energy right now. It’s packed with guidance on what the chakras are, how they work, and how to finally start clearing what’s been keeping you stuck.

🟡 Solar Plexus Chakra

This chakra is your power centre — confidence, identity, boundaries, and action. It’s often blocked by:

🟡 Constant criticism (from parents, teachers, partners)

🟡 Being compared to others or made to feel like a disappointment

🟡 Never being allowed to make your own decisions

🟡 Having to perform or succeed to feel worthy

🟡 Being made to feel invisible, unimportant, or “too much”

Blocked solar plexus chakra symptoms:

🟡 Chronic self-doubt or imposter syndrome

🟡 Procrastination or fear of being seen

🟡 Difficulty saying no or setting boundaries

🟡 Feeling powerless or like life happens to you

Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is where love, trust, compassion, and connection live. It can get blocked from:

🟢 Losing someone you love (death, breakups, abandonment)

🟢 Betrayal or deep rejection

🟢 Growing up feeling emotionally unseen or unloved

🟢 Always being the giver in relationships and never the receiver

🟢 Feeling like your love wasn’t enough to make someone stay or change

🟢 Holding onto grief or emotional pain for years without release

Blocked heart chakra symptoms:

🟢 Feeling emotionally closed off or deeply lonely

🟢 Attracting emotionally unavailable people

🟢 Struggling to trust others (or yourself)

🟢 Holding resentment or bitterness that won’t move

🟢 Overgiving to the point of depletion

🌀 Of course, trauma and energy can get stuck anywhere in the chakra system — but these four centres hold the deepest emotional roots that affect your ability to feel safe, open, and empowered enough to manifest what you want.

How Blocked Chakras Keep You in Freeze Mode (and Block Manifestation)

When your chakras are blocked by trauma — whether it’s big, small, obvious, or subtle — it affects your entire nervous system. And when that happens, your body shifts into survival mode.

🥶You’ve probably heard of fight or flight. But when the trauma or emotional overwhelm is ongoing — or feels like there’s no way out — your system goes into freeze. Freeze mode is when everything slows down, numbs out, or shuts off.

Your energy is just stuck in a place that still doesn’t feel safe — and your body is doing its best to protect you.Here’s the thing though: You can’t manifest from freeze.

When your nervous system is shut down and your lower chakras are holding trauma, your energy field is closed off. And if your energy is closed, what you want can’t come in — no matter how much you want it, think about it, or visualize it.

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🚫 That’s why things feel blocked. That’s why your manifestations don’t land. Because on some level, your system is still trying to survive — and manifestation requires space for thriving.

But here’s the truth: You can shift this. And it starts by gently releasing what your body, mind, and energy have been holding onto for far too long.

My Story: When Nothing Worked — Until I Finally Listened to My Body

✨When I first discovered manifestation, I was obsessed. I thought I’d finally found the answer — a way to change everything. To heal, to feel better, to create the life I actually wanted.

📓 So I went all in. I did the scripting, the visualising, the affirmations, the morning routines, the journaling, the late-night YouTube deep dives. I was determined to do it “right” and finally shift my life.

But no matter how consistent I was, no matter how badly I wanted things to change, nothing really happened. And worse, I started to feel like maybe I was the problem.

Like I was doing something wrong, or I didn’t believe hard enough, or I just wasn’t “high vibe” enough to deserve the life I wanted. It was incredibly frustrating. I was trying so hard, and still getting nowhere.

❌ What I didn’t realise back then was that my body was holding onto trauma I hadn’t even acknowledged. Not because I was ignoring it on purpose, but because I didn’t know it was there.

I thought trauma meant something obvious or extreme — like abuse, a serious accident, something you could clearly point to. But mine looked like years of keeping my feelings in, of pushing through exhaustion, of trying to keep the peace, of making myself smaller to make other people comfortable.

It was the kind of trauma that builds slowly over time, especially when you’re sensitive, and eventually your body just can’t hold it anymore.

🥶 All the manifestation techniques in the world weren’t going to work while my energy was still blocked and my nervous system was stuck in survival mode.

I was constantly anxious, fatigued, emotionally drained, and completely disconnected from my own needs. And eventually, it started showing up physically — in illness after illness, symptom after symptom. My body was literally shouting at me to listen.

🩹 Everything began to shift when I stopped trying to force change from the outside and started actually listening to myself — my body, my emotions, my energy.

🌱 When I began processing what I’d been carrying, when I started healing my chakras and releasing stuck emotions, that’s when manifestation finally started to feel natural. Not forced, not fake, but real and aligned.

How to Start Releasing Trauma and Clearing Your Chakras

Releasing trauma and clearing your chakras isn’t about fixing yourself or rushing to be “healed.” It’s about creating space in your body and energy so what you desire can finally flow in. And that starts with something most of us were never taught how to do: actually feeling our emotions.

💠 1. Feel What’s Been Suppressed

If you’ve been emotionally overwhelmed for years, or you’ve had to stay strong for everyone else, your system may have learned to push feelings down just to get through the day.

That’s not your fault — it’s how your body protected you. But if those emotions were never allowed to be felt, they didn’t just disappear. They got stored — in your tissues, your nervous system, and your chakras.

🧘‍♀️To release what’s stuck, you don’t need to relive the trauma or figure out exactly what caused it. You just need to stay present.

When emotions come up — sadness, frustration, heaviness, even numbness — try not to judge or overthink them. Don’t attach stories.

Just notice how they feel in your body. Is it tightness in your chest? A knot in your stomach? A fog in your head? Stay with that sensation. Breathe into it. Let it be there without trying to fix it. That’s how stuck energy begins to move.

🌬️ 2. Use Breath to Create Safety

Your breath is one of the easiest, most effective ways to soothe your nervous system and open your energy. When trauma is still stored, your body doesn’t feel safe — and breath helps shift that. 

You don’t need anything complicated. Just a few minutes a day of slow, conscious breathing can calm your system and open the flow of energy.

Try box breathing (inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4) or simply slow your inhale and exhale through your nose. It might seem too simple to matter — but over time, it creates a deep sense of internal safety, which is exactly what your energy needs to open up.

🖊️ 3. Let It Move Through Writing

Journaling can be a powerful way to give your energy and emotions somewhere to land. You don’t need to know what to say — sometimes just starting with “I feel…” is enough. Let yourself write without editing or trying to make sense of it.

This isn’t about logic — it’s about release. You might uncover things you didn’t even realise you’d been holding, and that’s exactly what allows it to finally shift.

The most important thing is to be gentle with yourself. If you’ve been repressing emotions for a long time — even unintentionally — they’ll feel uncomfortable when they start to surface.

That doesn’t mean something’s wrong. It means your system is doing exactly what it’s meant to do: release. Stay conscious. Let the feeling move through. You don’t need to force anything. Just allow.

And remember, you don’t have to heal everything at once. That’s why I created my free chakra eBook — so you can figure out which of your chakras is blocked right now and begin where your energy is asking you to. You’ll be surprised how quickly things start to shift when you support the right place first.

The Truth About Why It Hasn’t Worked — Until Now

If manifestation hasn’t been working for you — even though you’ve tried everything — it’s not because you’re doing it wrong, and it’s not because you’re not “high vibe” enough. It’s probably because your energy system is still carrying trauma that hasn’t had the chance to be released.

That unprocessed emotion, whether it was caused by something huge or something subtle that built up over time, can block your chakras, shut down your nervous system, and keep your body in survival mode. And when you’re stuck in survival, your energy can’t open to receive what you want — no matter how badly you want it.

The good news? You don’t need to force or fake anything. Once you begin gently clearing the trauma your body and energy have been holding onto, things start to shift. You begin to feel different — more grounded, more present, more open — and your manifestations finally have somewhere to land.

You don’t have to clear everything all at once. Start with the chakra that’s calling for your attention. That’s where your power is.

If you’re not sure where to start, I’ve created a free chakra eBook that will help you figure out exactly which of your chakras might be blocked, how to spot the signs, and where to focus your energy first. You can download it below and begin clearing the path back to yourself — and to the life you’ve been trying to create.