29/04/2022
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Trauma at the level of the nervous system means that our neurobiological foundation has been shattered. Something that should happen didn't happen or something happened that couldn't be metabolized and integrated. It leaves us vulnerable to hurt, dysregulation and pain but also unreceptive to all the good stuff for whom our nervous system doesn't have a reference. What is unfamiliar may be perceived as a threat.
LOSS OF OUR EMBODIED SELF. If trauma is non-verbal, meaning at the level of the nervous system, somatic, emotional, relational, energetic, we grow up not having a reference for an embodied sense of self. Our sense of self comes from how other people perceived/perceive us, and how we've learned to survive and cope with life, disconnected from our embodied experience. We also become disconnected from our truth, needs, limits and our primal, instinctual self. To heal we need to rebuild our non-verbal foundation...from scratch. To reconnect with these essential elements of our experience.
Trauma means loss. Loss of connection, loss of power, loss of authenticity and loss of traumatized aspects of ourselves that remained trapped in fear, shame, anger or helplessness. Trauma resolution is a process of reconnection, witnessing, reclaiming, feeling and meeting all these aspects of our experience that have been suppressed, not nurtured, not seen for so long.
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