What is trauma?

Jul 26, 2019 - Craniosacral Therapy

– Okay, so I’m gonna share with you

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one of my first big bugbears about trauma.

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So, when we refer to trauma we talk about

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possibly childhood trauma, severe emotional dysfunction,

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things like PTSD.

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There may be like, near-death experiences,

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there may be significant grief,

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there may be neglect as a child.

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My personal, and I guess the viewpoint

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that a lot of people share on trauma is,

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trauma can be little micro-traumas.

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So, trauma can be things that are built up

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over a long period of time.

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It can be things like being told

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to sit down and shut up as a child,

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it can be attachment issues,

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it can be being in a relationship with a narcissist,

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it can be any number of things.

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In a number of really interesting books

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that are written about this by neuropsychologists,

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by psychologists, by psychiatrists,

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and there’s a really good one called

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The Body Keeps the Score and I’ve posted about it

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on our page before and they talk about

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the three-pronged approach to treating trauma.

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Basically, the name, The Body Keeps the Score,

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comes from the idea that trauma and emotional trauma

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is really held in the viscera and the tissues

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and that’s where things like craniosacral

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and a lot of manual therapy treatments that we do come in.

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