God Works Magazine - May-June 2024 - Flipbook - Page 52
I
could not wait until childhood was finally over
Trauma is more than a past memory or an event.
and I could live free and away from the terror
Trauma is what happens inside our body as a result of
and dread that I experienced in my childhood
what happened. It is caused by an overwhelming re-
and teenage years. It was only to realize that it
sponse to actual or perceived threats in our nervous
felt like I had not really escaped my childhood after
all.
system.
The repeated intensity of the activation and charge
The feelings, sensations, patterns, responses, and
without the safety of a compassionate witness that
stuckness were still very much alive and present in my
allows your system to settle and return to a sense of
body and affecting my life. I did not un-
regulation may cause the nervous system
derstand this because everything on the
to remain
