How Personality Forms — and How Trauma Alters the Process
Most of us grow up assuming that our “personality” is simply who we are — a collection of traits, preferences, and habits that make us unique. But personality isn’t something we’re born with. It’s something that develops. It’s the shape our life energy takes as it learns to move through the world — a form […]
Understanding the Downward Arc: How Survival Becomes Structure
Most trauma models describe what trauma does to us — how it dysregulates our nervous system, distorts our beliefs, or shapes our relationships. Others explain why healing is difficult — the fears, defenses, and resistances that arise when we begin to change. But few describe the process that happens in between: the slow, invisible transformation […]
Downward Arc: How Survival Becomes Struggle
There’s a point in every survivor’s story where what once kept us safe begins to keep us stuck.That shift — from adaptation to entrapment, from flow to fixation — is what I call the Downward Arc. The Intelligence of Survival Every pattern we carry began as a kind of brilliance.When we were children, our bodies […]