26/01/2026
✨ COMMENT UNDERSTAND ✨
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When trauma is triggered, you don’t act your age.
You act the age the wound was created.
This insight — originally shared by Gabor Maté — can be profoundly relieving when you truly feel what it means.
Because so many people carry shame around their reactions.
“Why am I like this?”
“I should be past this by now.”
“I know better — so why do I still react this way?”
But trauma isn’t stored as a story in the mind.
It’s stored as sensation, impulse, protection — in the body.
When your nervous system senses threat, the thinking brain goes offline.
The body steps in and responds from an earlier time —
a time when it learned how to survive without choice, language, or support.
That response isn’t immaturity.
It isn’t failure.
And it certainly isn’t weakness.
It’s intelligence.
It’s protection.
It’s a younger part of you doing exactly what it learned to do.
Healing, then, isn’t about forcing those parts to “grow up” or disappear.
It’s about creating space for them.
Meeting them with compassion.
And gently bringing your adult nervous system back online with safety and presence.
This is the heart of nervous system work:
less self-judgement,
more understanding,
and a body that slowly learns — I’m safe now.
If you’re ready to explore this more deeply and learn how to work with your nervous system (rather than against it), I’d love to support you.
At the moment, I work with people through my programmes and guided resources — all designed to help you understand your inner world, regulate your nervous system, and feel more at home in your body.
With love
Sarah xx