Chakras & shit...

I came home from my second tour in the United States Navy rather unstable to say the least.  After several years of therapy, someone introduced me to shadow work.  This is where I found my life.  Shadow work opens up another world, simply put, it allows you to get to the root of your shit.  Trauma, hurt, pain, heartbreak, even our own self-sabotaging stupidity, all need healing if we wish to come out on top at some point.  I've been called a healer all my life, but was never able to heal myself, so once I realized that I, indeed, was the source of a lot of my own issues, it was a small thing to a giant, because WHY the hell would I continue to allow myself to journey these circumstances?  Makes no sense right... WRONG.  Every situation I've ever been in, specifically the ones I thought I wouldn't or couldn't survive, was for good.  I walked these paths so that I could, at bare minimum, tell the story of "why you shouldn't do that, that particular way."  i'm still gettin my own shit together, so like worst case scenario, you might help me...