12/17/2024
We all experience challenges in life, but some individuals or families will experience devastating traumas. Traumas can come from an attack or abuse by a stranger or from a deeply loved partner. Trauma can come from natural disasters, hurricanes, tornados, floods, fires or earthquakes. Trauma can come from political leaders who control, abuse, and demean people in inhuman ways. Trauma can come through the loss of a loved one, or seeing others traumatized. It may be from an injury that is dramatic but heals, or from an injury that causes a career to end or causes lifelong pain. Trauma can be both physical and/or emotional. Some traumas are obvious, while other traumas are not visible initially, but carry deep pain, loss, and needed healing.
With physical trauma, our body goes into shock. In the same manner, with trauma, our minds also go into shock, and we must address our emotional and mental health, as well.
Traumas occur when someone, or something, over which we have little or no control, harms or threatens us or others and our safety.
None of us want to experience trauma and often take elaborate steps to avoid it at all costs. However, sometimes traumas make us stronger, give us the ability to understand and empathize with others suffering loss, and can help prepare us for future traumas we may experience or see others experience.
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