02/05/2025
While continuing to enhance the trauma lens I utilize in working with individuals from all walks of life, it's more apparent that nothing can be achieved unless the person feels safe. We all have these biological systems that motivate us into action in order to attain survival. And when faced with trauma our autonomic nervous system needs to be slowly restored. Otherwise we continue to perpetuate the avoidance of certain memories or difficult feelings. In addition, we keep these walls up as defenses and as a result "feel good" or tell ourselves we are ok when we escape into strategies that have become adaptive for us.
Social media is one of those examples of having the urge to escape the trigger of some sort(a thought, feeling) and then getting the relief we were seeking. Addiction of any sort has this same flavor.
