Trauma Assessment Overview
How do you know if childhood trauma is shaping your life right now? That’s not an easy question to answer. Trauma isn’t always obvious. It’s not just the dramatic stories of abuse or disasters. More often it’s the subtle, ongoing experiences that quietly shape your nervous system, the way you think, the way you relate, […]
What We Mean by Trauma (Beyond the Big Event)
Trauma isn’t only what happened. It’s also what didn’t happen—the safety, attunement, and steady encouragement you needed but didn’t get. Most people picture trauma as a single, catastrophic event: an assault, an accident, a disaster. That kind of shock trauma is real and serious. But it’s not the whole story. There’s another form that hides […]
In Practice: Shaking to Release the Freeze
There are times when your body doesn’t fight and it doesn’t run. It just locks up. You know the feeling — frozen, numb, disconnected. Maybe you’re standing in a conversation and your mind goes blank, or you’re lying in bed and you can’t move even though you want to. It’s like the system has pulled […]