28/01/2025
A very gentle reminder. Trauma is not about 'the event', or the experiences we may have had, or not had. It is 100% about our RESPONSES to those experiences.... look to the many adaptations, schemas, habits, illnesses, belief systems, attachment patterns, body moves, 'people-pleasing' behaviors, perfectionism, avoidances - strategies called by many names: "parts", defenses, addictions, complexes - so beautifully created to 'cope' with those responses, and often created in a split second to quite literally Stay Alive.🎯
It's quite a 'body of work' when you think about it!
So give yourself 'credit', and a megadose of self-compassion.
'Healing' is easier said than done, don't let anyone tell you otherwise,
but healing most assuredly can be done. If it wasn't possible we humans would have died out long ago! Remember that. 🙏
