Yet you feel shame. Despite your attempts to cover up your past, it continues to impact your life.
Your sleep sucks, you can’t keep to a routine, and even if you don’t recognize it in the moment, you know. What happened to you permeates into everything – your relationships, your work, your sense of self.
Trauma tells you that nothing will ever be the same again. It beckons you to live quietly in suffering because there must have been a reason why this happened to you.
You have suffered in silence for most of your life. Memories become hazy, and you wonder whether things were as bad as your body tells you they were.
Whether it’s a one-time occurrence or trauma throughout your life, it becomes a permanent fixture that you can’t seem to escape.
What’s really happening is that your body is in ‘fight or flight’ mode, and you haven’t given it permission to rest.
Picture a tree on top of your head. The roots are your neurons, the channels that carry your thoughts. When trauma happens, those roots are synced, and it feels like a part of you goes away.
Whether it’s a singular event or trauma across a lifetime, therapy helps you organize your thoughts, understand what you can, and accept what you can’t.
In therapy, we recognize that although what happened is not your fault, it is your responsibility to return to that point in your life and rescue yourself from the narratives that hold you hostage.
Together, we work to give your body and mind permission to rest. We equip you with the tools to prepare and protect yourself in the future. We grow those new roots to show yourself that life is still worth living, despite what happened to you.
We help you build resilience, which is the mental strength that helps you cope.
You show yourself to be capable of building meaning and purpose.
The trauma chokehold becomes lighter, and eventually, it becomes a part of your story, not a part of your character.
Take the first step by reaching out through the form below. We can help you.