Trauma Recovery
Trauma happens when you experience something that overwhelms your nervous system.
On some level, we all have experienced some form of trauma, including the trauma of being born, yet everyone experiences the impact of these challenges differently based on your unique wiring and sensitivities.
It’s also true that it doesn’t take a single big event to create a lasting traumatic imprint. Sometimes trauma happens over time when you continue to experience small threats, neglect, or negative beliefs that inform how you experience the world.
Your nervous system becomes on alert, tracking for threats and creating anxiety, dissociation, reactivity, and a whole lot of other challenging symptoms.
When your nervous system is compromised, it reeks havoc on your life and your relationships.
Your reactions create ripples in the world around you. Sometimes others get hurt, sometimes you are just hurting yourself.
You may have a hard time trusting others or feeling safe in your own body.
Connecting with other people in a healthy way may feel hopeless when you struggle to navigate your own boundaries or communicate them in relationship.
When you are living with trauma, it can feel like you are broken.
Nobody seems to understand what it takes to just be normal in everyday situations.
Trauma has a way of fracturing your system so that important pieces of who you are seem to be missing.
Putting yourself together again is an act of reclamation.
” Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.”
– Wikipedia
Healing Trauma is like putting the pieces back together so that you feel strong and solid.
When other people are working on “filling their cup,” you are working on putting the pieces of your cup back together.
It’s an act of bravery and reclamation of the parts of you that have been lost.
Like the Japanese art of Kintsugi, creating a solid sense of self does not mean that you forget about your past hurts. Instead you can use them to strengthen who you are and show up in the world in a more beautiful and integrated way.
Trauma therapy will help you to work with your nervous system to regain a sense of empowerment and control over the way you respond to life.
You will learn how to tune into the subtle language of your body so that you can discern what is true for you, strengthen your boundaries, and be confident in your yeses and nos.
Instead of reacting to life, you will learn how to respond from a place of your own inner knowing and choice.
Your relationships will become more satisfying, and you will begin to feel more ease and joy in all areas of your life.
