Trauma therapy can help you ease your pain

You are not alone.

Living everyday life with unresolved trauma can leave you feeling drained, isolated and emotionally overwhelmed. Trauma can be stored in the brain and body in ways that you may not be aware of long after the experience is over. This can make it increasingly difficult to connect with the people and things around you that matter the most sometimes leading to relationship conflict, burnout, and physical stress. 

Trauma can feel like you’re stuck in constant stress, fear, and anxiety that leaves you feeling numb. You push it down and try to keep it moving because you have so much on your plate. Trauma can affect the way that you think, increasing negative thoughts about yourself and the world around you, making it difficult to feel safe and sometimes impacting your ability to trust yourself and others.

Trauma is not always obvious; in fact, you may have thought that trauma isn’t something that affects you. Big or small, the things that happen to us can cause a big impact. Being ignored by a caregiver, conflicts between you a coworker or family member, cheating or a difficult breakup, and repeated harsh words can cause trauma.

According to Mental Health America, among people who reported moderate to severe symptoms, 53% identified past trauma as a major factor in their mental health challenges. You don’t have to navigate this alone. By taking the first step to begin trauma-informed therapy, you can create meaningful change in your life. Whether it’s shadow work, inner child healing, parts work, or trauma-informed therapy, our priority is helping you vibe, heal, and grow.

Types of traumas:

• Emotional Trauma: Psychological or emotional trauma happens when you experience an extraordinarily stressful or frightening event that threatens your sense of safety and leaves lasting effects on your brain and body long after the event has passed. Realizing that you may be living with emotional trauma may be difficult because it affects the parts of you that no one can see-your soul, mind, and spirit. Emotional trauma may happen to you after a one-time event, like an unexpected accident or an attack, or it may be ongoing. Chronic stress such as relationship or work-related issues or battling a life-threatening illness may also potentially cause psychological trauma. Other less recognizable causes of emotional trauma can be identified as the break-up of a significant relationship, being on the receiving end of deliberately cruel treatment, and having a deeply humiliating or disappointing experience. 

• Childhood trauma: Childhood trauma is a scary, violent, or life-threatening event that can be potentially traumatic for the child involved.  Childhood trauma happens during the first 17 years of life (0-17 years old).  Events that can be classified as traumas include violence, abuse and neglect, household challenges experienced by a caretaker, and other adversities. Childhood trauma can impact you in many different ways including disturbed sleep and recurring nightmares, anger, anxiety and or panic attacks, and depression.  Many people also experience feeling exhausted, difficulty concentrating, disordered eating, impulsiveness, and difficulty maintaining relationships.  According to the ongoing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study, 61% of adults have experienced at least one ACE, which can contribute to emotional struggles during childhood and adolescence and predict a wide range of outcomes for adults. You may wonder if you’ve experienced childhood trauma—you are not alone. These experiences can affect your daily life, but therapy can help you process the past, gain control in the present, and heal your inner child.