Trauma

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering…”  Peter Levine

What we know about trauma:

• Trauma responses are actually a ‘survival mode’ that we enter when we perceive our lives are being threatened.

• We can become stuck in survival mode if we become overwhelmed by threat and are unable to be successful in defending ourselves

• Trauma responses are designed to be short-termed solutions to a threat. However, if left untreated for a time these responses become the symptoms of trauma.

• Trauma responses (symptoms) invade every part of our lives

• Trauma is a basic rupture—loss of connection—to ourselves, our families, and the world.

• Trauma responses develop gradually; we adjust gradually to these changes. Some may not notice these changes in ourselves.

“Contrary to the view of psychiatric medicine – that trauma is basically untreatable and only marginally controllable by drugs, – when treated thoroughly healing can lead not only to symptom reduction, but long-term transformation.”

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