Trauma

Trauma is not defined by the event itself, but by the impact it leaves on your nervous system, your relationships, your body, and your sense of safety. Trauma can come from a single overwhelming moment, repeated experiences, or subtle but deeply painful interactions that shaped how you learned to protect yourself.

What matters most is not what happened on the outside, but how it felt for you on the inside.

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Trauma occurs when an experience overwhelms your ability to cope, leaving lasting emotional, physical, or relational effects. This might show up as hypervigilance, anxiety, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting others, people-pleasing, irritability, dissociation, or feeling disconnected from who you are.

These responses are not your fault. They are protective adaptations your nervous system created to help you survive.

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Healing begins when we gently explore these patterns with compassion, curiosity, and safety.