Explore A Simple Trauma Timeline To Prioritize The Healing Process
Everyone experiences trauma, even if you’ve lived a pleasant life. Here’s an easy way you can begin your journey towards recovery.
Can we be traumatized even if we’ve had a “nice” life?
People often think we have to suffer from childhood abuse or the war to have trauma. However, this is not true.
Trauma is caused by being overwhelmed and feeling powerless. While the concept is relatively subjective, some good examples are that when we’re young and vulnerable, many things, such as removing love or harsh criticism, can seem existentially threatening.
The truth is none of us get through life without these types of experiences, and we all have “trauma” to some degree.
Let’s review a simplified version of the trauma scale using a personal example, how you can create your trauma timeline through journaling, and some general trauma misconceptions and symptoms to watch out for.
The Trauma Scale
Speaking from personal experience, in 2019, I had the pleasure of working with an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Practitioner with the core objective of processing trauma-related…
