Lauren Power Counselling
Trauma is an experience that separates you from a sense of safety and security in your life, and relationship trauma involves various forms of interpersonal betrayals and that impact your ability to trust, communicate your needs, and have healthy relationships while under the trauma shadow. This includes experiences of gender based violence, abandonment, or other oppression enacted by those around you.
Trauma impacts tend to create changes in our bodies as they accumulate. Depression, anxiety, physical illness and addictions or unhealthy ways of coping can result. Intergenerational trauma alters the next generation to be more “on guard” and predicts anxiety and depression.
But healing changes your body and brain, just as the traumas have.