This article could be a book so it will not fit all signs of trauma. But today its important to recognize some of the symptoms that trauma has negatively affected your life. Maybe the events you have experienced you feel that they should not affect you that much, but the reality is even if you think it SHOULDN’T impact it probably has. See for me trauma snuck up on me. I had many events in my life that individually could have caused mental health issues, but I think I had

This is the most common answer I get from most of my clients. Although as a trauma therapist I see that almost everyone has had some levels of response. The fact that someone has possibly had a more traumatic event does not negate the effects of your trauma or the existence of it. I have been taught and witnessed for years with my clients that there are different kinds of traumatic events. First, there are what EMDR would call a “BIG T” trauma. These are events that leav