Trauma rewires our brain. It changes how our nervous system responds to threat.
Moving forward after a traumatic experience, our nervous system will be on high alert for danger. We will move into a protective response before we even realize it.
Our amyadala responds to a danger cue much faster than our cognitive brain registers what is happening.
Our unresolved traumatic experiences show up as reactions. Quick, big, loud, and protected reactions.
When you are on high alert anything can feel like a threat.
Trauma can come back as memories, nightmares, or flashbacks. It can also be a feeling or reaction.
Sometimes that might look like getting angry seeingly out of nowhere, lashing out, shutting down, or numbing.
Sometimes trauma shows up in how we feel about ourselves, feeling unlovable, unworthy, or a sense of deep shame.
Trauma shows up within and between. Within ourselves and between us and other and how we show up in relationships.
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