27/03/2026
Sometimes trauma can be difficult for one to recognise as their own experience, but it might surprise you to learn that you don’t need to have experienced war, disaster, accident or physical abuse to be effected by trauma.
Trauma doesn’t have to be a stand out event, nor does it have to be something that happened to you or something that can be seen. You can be left with the wounds of trauma through witnessing something happening to someone else or from the way in which an event left you feeling. Not all scars can be seen or shown.
By definition: Trauma is a unique individual experience which overwhlems your ability to cope. This can be physical, psychological or unmet fundamental needs of safety, security, respect, shelter, love etc
Ultimately it is inevitable that we will all have experienced trauma within our lifetime. Our birthing into the world is trauma in itself, and whilst our brain is derived to forget trauma has a unique way of leaving it’s mark on us in other ways. Some forms of trauma can also be generational, passed down from parent to child over a number of years without intention or awareness.
We all suffer from the the way in which we heal might need to be learnt over time and our response to events and adverse conditions can not be measured against one another, for all of us are unique.
“Yet the paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect” (Peter Levine).
When you recognise your trauma and it’s impact you can begin the journey of healing. There is much to live for after trauma, you have much to give to the world. In the end it’s your experiences that make your character so wonderfully rich. In realising this we can shine the light on the shame trauma leaves behind and transform it into part of the narrative in your life’s story.
Trauma doesn’t define you.
Your mistakes don’t define you.
Your regrets don’t define you.
How someone treats you, doesn’t define you.
You are so much more than that.
