No matter how long ago, or where we are in the journey, healing is possible. Healing is not just about acknowledging our pain but in teaching the nervous system how to feel safe again after a traumatic experience occurred. It can cause us to feel untrusting in love, pull away from connection, and sabotage a good thing. In many cases, its expression is catastrophic to our relationships. Someway or another, trauma finds a way to be heard. Disrupted nervous systems, chronic pain, auto-immune disorders.Stress disorders, low cortisol (fatigue/exhaustion).Major relationship struggles, and isolation tendencies.We see trauma living out in the present-day through: We are slowly waking up to the ways in which we invalidate our experiences and brush them off as “fine” when really, they are still alive in our bodies. Be it ancestral trauma, generational trauma, sexual abuse, abandonment, loss, divorce, betrayal, poverty, and all of the lines you can color in between. It would be safe to say, the majority of us carry trauma in some shape or form. Any event that interrupts the nervous system in such a way that it over-reacts to future perceived threats, is a trauma. Today, we understand that trauma doesn’t look one way and that in a sense, there’s no clear cut definition of what trauma is or isn’t – because trauma is about the perception of an event, not the event itself.Īny event that causes the nervous system to adapt, shut down, freeze, or flee is by definition, a “trauma”. And fortunately for our generation, there are endless resources on how to heal and recover. Fast forward to the present day, and our understanding of trauma is much more nuanced. When we heard the word “trauma”, most people imagined a serious car accident, or something “catastrophic”. Just ten years ago, trauma was not part of the mainstream conversation.
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