Trauma survivors often have a shortened range of emotion #feelagain #traumainformed #traumarecovery

Gambling on true love #traumahealing #therealme #idontfeelsafe

Is there hope for attachment issues? #imnotokay #traumahealing #insecureattachment

Seeing the world through our attachment style #traumainformed #anxiousattachment #mentalwellness

What is attachment? #mentalwellness #connection #weareconnected

Could mirror neurons be the basis of relationship? #mentalwellness #traumainformed #mentalhealth

Mirror neurons & ongoing research #mindandbody #mentalwellness #mentalhealth #iamsafeinmybody

Locked in a moment. #traumainformed #imnotokay #traumahealing #iamsafeinmybody

I am safe in my body. #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumainformed #emotionalregulation

Exhale slowly all the way out #traumainformed #traumahealing #iamsafeinmybody

Activate the sympathetic nervous system #traumahealing #traumainformed #emotionalregulation

Does trauma make you a highly sensitive person? #traumainformed #traumatized #iamsafeinmybody

Hyperarousal and other stage 1 symptoms #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumainformed #iamsafeinmybody

Fighting our own biology #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumainformed #iamsafeinmybody

when you can’t recall what happened to you #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumatized #traumainformed 

Fragmented memories #traumahealing #traumainformed #imnotokay #iamsafeinmybody

Trauma response in the dentist’s chair #traumatized #imnotokay #traumainformed #iamsafeinmybody

The taste of adrenaline #traumatized #traumainformed #trauma #imnotokay

Freeze response #imnotokay #traumatized #traumahealing #iamsafeinmybody

How your central nervous system works to evaluate the threat #traumatized #imnotokay #traumahealing

Loss of agency may be hard to recognize #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumatized #iamsafeinmybody

“Triggering” is anything that bumps the trauma memory #traumainformed #traumatized #iamsafeinmybody

There is no *time* in trauma. #traumainformed #imnotokay #iamsafeinmybody #traumahealing

Trauma impacts the whole body #traumahealing #traumatized #imnotokay #iamsafeinmybody

If we feel #traumatized, we are. #imnotokay #traumahealing #traumainformed

Trauma: what the mind and body perceives as dangerous #traumahealing #traumainformed #idontfeelsafe

“A lot of people have it a lot worse than me.” #trauma #iamsafeinmybody #imnotokay

Where do we go from here? #traumahealing #iamsafeinmybody #emotionalregulation

A belief that emotions are inherently unmanageable #emotionalregulation 

Freedom to express your experience

A generational divide in responding to trauma

There are no “little traumas.”

What is body armoring?

Your truth = subjective experience

Your body remembers your experiences!

TRAUMA = What we perceive as dangerous