PSYCHOLOGY
Unresolved Trauma? — How to Know You’re Not Healed
Telltale signs that you have more work to do.
Trauma triggers can feel like a skipping rock across the pond of your life.
Unresolved trauma can hit you when you’re calm, seemingly out of nowhere. Skipping across your calmness, casting ripples that affect you, and often, everything around you — your relationships, your job, your sleep.
It’s not really that poetic. In fact, it’s downright ugly at times. Sometimes, it’s clear you have lots more healing work to do.
But what if you think you’re healed up? You’ve done the work, written the journals, had the conversations, cried until you were out of tears, and even after all this time has passed, your trauma still affects you.
It’s been months or years or decades. So, why do you feel like there’s something that’s still not right?
It’s Time to Re-Address Your Past Trauma(s)
Why did that person just set you off? Why are you crying in the car at lunch break and aren’t really sure why you’re upset? Are you depressed? Maybe.
But it could also mean a bit of unresolved trauma is being dislodged, cast across you — skip, skip, skip. Then you’re…
