Some past reflections on trauma which still resonate deeply.
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy,
an integral human event of enormous proportions
with massive repercussions.”
After posting my last post on the abandonment depression I started to question how much time we really need to be alone and reliving our trauma. Trauma is not an intellectual thing. It may affect our thinking but the truth is that trauma is something that happens to our physical body as well as our emotions which we experience bodily and the effects of the shock, fear, hostility, shame or other types of traumas stay lodged in the body, they register in the cells, they affect the balance of chemicals and tissue salts, they drive us towards addictions either to numb more or to find a way to cope with the pain. We most essentially MUST address our trauma and its consequences on a bodily level. And so much of trauma does…
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