Trauma

What usually comes to mind when we think of trauma are the Big “T” traumas: assaults, car accidents, and overt physical danger. There are also Little “t” traumas which are chronic and ongoing moments where we’ve felt unsafe, unprotected, or in a constant state of survival (fight, flight, freeze, fawn).

All of these moments can be from both real and perceived events. Meaning, if on the surface it looks as though we weren’t in real danger, but our brain and body perceives it as real, it has the same traumatic effect.

Both of these types of traumas can prevent us from feeling safe in the world. Everything feels like an attack, we act without thinking, we go from 0-100 in an instant.