Trauma & PTSD, C-PTSD
Trauma is the body’s incomplete and unsuccessful protective response to an event or situation that overwhelms us.
It is the feelings states, movements and sounds that didn’t get to be fully expressed, felt, and integrated during and after an overwhelming event or ongoing situation and then gets stuck in the body. Taking residence of our tissues and fibers at a cellular level.
Our bodies are infinitely wise and develop patterns of hyper-vigilance, holding, suppressing, and disassociating in order to protect us. We can get stuck in our body’s protective responses, always on edge and ready for more trauma, stuck in a loop of constant dis-regulation.
It can lead to a person feeling chronically unsafe in their own body and in relationships with others. Trauma can distort one's perceptions and cause overwhelming feels of guilt, shame, and a lack of self-worth.
Trauma is ultimately about disconnection. It closes us off from our own hearts.
Trauma happens to the body and therefore must be healed through the body.
Our bodies carry everything we have been through and contain everything we need to heal and thrive.
I do not approach pain and discomfort as something that needs to be fixed or something that I am an expert on. We are all experts of our own needs and bodies. This wisdom we each carry has often just been suppressed.
We need guidance, support, and tools to come back into connection with ourselves; our body’s wisdom, and our natural capacity to heal.
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.”