Trauma
Trauma & EMDR
Trauma
Trauma can be caused by emotional, physical or sexual abuse. It can be caused by seeing and experiencing terrible things as a combat veteran, first responder, or medical professional. You can experience trauma from being in an accident, or having a significant injury or serious illnesses. You can be traumatized by being a witness to something awful.
Trauma can also be caused by small emotional wounds delivered over time, such as bullying, growing up with emotionally unavailable or abusive parents, being compared to an older sibling, being told you'll never measure up, or being exposed to drug addiction, domestic violence, or criminal behaviors. Trauma can be caused by the misuse of religion to create shame, and many other reasons.
Trauma impacts our identity, our worth, and our physical being. Unresolved trauma can leave you in a state of constant hypervigilance, hyperreactivity, and hypersensitivity. You may find yourself overreacting to the smallest things, feeling completely hijacked by how you respond and wondering why this keeps happening to you. This can leave you feeling exhausted and hopeless.
Trauma leaves a lasting impact on a person’s emotional, mental, and physical well-being. In many instances, people who have suffered trauma may not even realize it until they begin to experience symptoms that negatively impact their daily lives.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a time-tested and research proven method of resolving trauma. I'm a Certified EMDR and Certified Transformation EMDR therapist. I have helped hundreds of people overcome trauma and become free of things in their past that they thought would never get better.
If you're carrying past trauma, please contact me. I want to help.
Understanding Emotional Trauma
Emotional trauma can result from various experiences, ranging from childhood abuse or neglect, the death of a loved one, and serious illnesses or accidents to adult experiences, such as sexual assault, a severe medical crisis, domestic violence, combat, working as a first responder, or being in a car accident. These are sometimes referred to as “Big T” traumas. But ongoing stressors or repetitive negative events can also cause trauma. These can be referred to as “Little t” traumas. “Little t” traumas are often referred to as cumulative trauma.
For example, when you grow up in a family where your parents or caregivers are emotionally absent, you may suffer from childhood emotional neglect. Each instance of neglect is a small trauma. Mild or moderately emotionally abusive people in your life can expose you to cumulative trauma over time when they expose you to regular or constant demeaning remarks that attack your self-worth. If you experienced bullying, if your body was ridiculed for being short or overweight, of if you grew up on the shadow of a "golden child" sibling, it's easy to internalize the belief that you aren't good enough and never will be, you don't matter, you aren't safe, or you can't trust people.
Whether trauma hits in a big bang or a thousand cuts, it can cause a lasting impact on a person’s life, especially when left unprocessed.
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