What Is Agency? A Fundamental Concept for Understanding Trauma and Healing
Let’s discuss agency; it’s one of those topics that, once you grasp it, changes how you’ll perceive everything. Agency is fundamentally your capacity for free will and meaningful action in your own life. It’s the reason you feel in control of your own direction. Because life is chaos, it doesn’t give you control over everything; […]
The Core Factors That Make an Experience Traumatic—And How They Apply to Childhood Complex Trauma
Trauma is about how an experience shapes a person’s sense of safety, control, and capacity to comprehend or process an event or situation—it’s not only about what happens. While some experiences could be distressing but not traumatic, others leave long-lasting scars impacting a person’s emotional, mental, and physical well-being for years. What therefore distinguishes a […]
What Is C-PTSD and How It Relates to Childhood Complex Trauma
Have you ever felt like your problems with feelings, relationships, or even your sense of self were more than just normal stress? Like there’s a pattern tied to your past that you just can’t seem to get rid of? If so it’s okay, you’re not the only one. They’re likely reflections of complex PTSD (C-PTSD), […]
What is Childhood Complex Trauma? A Beginner’s Guide
When we talk about trauma, we likely picture big, dramatic events—things like car accidents, natural disasters, or violent attacks. Trauma, however, takes many different forms and sizes; not all of it is as clear-cut as you would believe. Particularly in childhood, some of the most impactful trauma occurs silently over time. It’s known as childhood […]
What Is Trauma? A Basic Breakdown of a Complex Concept
Everybody’s gone through difficult circumstances—times when life seemed like too much to manage. Perhaps it was a terrible breakup, a terrifying accident, or a result of total neglect when you most needed support. We sometimes move past these events and carry on. But other times something changes within us. This is when we’re venturing into […]
Understanding Trauma: The Impact of Early Experiences on Long-Term Well-Being
When we hear the word “trauma,” we usually picture dramatic events like natural disasters, accidents, or violent assaults. Actually, though, trauma is far more complicated than simply the experiences themselves. It’s not necessarily what happens to us, but how we handle it, how we cope. Two people could go through the exact same circumstances and […]