What Does Unresolved Trauma Look Like Day to Day? Unresolved trauma rarely looks dramatic in daily life. Instead, it shows up as patterns — reactions, emotions, and habits that feel automatic and hard to control. These responses once helped you cope, but may now feel...
What Qualifies Something as Trauma? Trauma isn’t defined by how extreme an experience looks from the outside. It’s defined by how your mind and body respond. If something overwhelmed your ability to cope at the time and still affects you now, it qualifies — regardless...
For many adults, the plan is to keep going. Stay productive. Show up for work. Take care of everyone else. Push through what hurts and hope it fades with time. That approach is understandable, and for a while, it may even seem to work. Many people living with...
Feeling Fine… But Something’s Off You’re not falling apart. In fact, you’re managing work, relationships, and the daily grind. But something feels off. Maybe you react more intensely than a situation seems to call for. Perhaps you feel far away from the people you...
You’re at Target with your little sidekick. You just said “no” to a tantalizing endcap displaying pastel Easter eggs and yellow marshmallow Peeps, and brace yourself for what’s coming. Your hissed commands, negotiation, and desperate attempt to make it stop are no...
The reason traumatic events pack such a powerful punch boils down to survival. Back in the day, anyone who was blasé about tigers and other threats didn’t last very long. Our brains are wired to obsess over a traumatic event because it thinks our survival depends on...
