Trauma

A trauma is any experience which threatens, disconnects, harms or causes fear in an individual. When traumas are validated by self and by at least one other individual, they can be perceived in Truth and healed. However, when traumas are not spoken, they cause shame, disconnect and confusion within the individual. Often, traumatizing experiences occur very early in our childhoods (although they may be completely ordinary experiences to the grown-ups around us, who may not notice them), before we have gained the skill set to speak our feelings. In these circumstances, shame can enter our lives very early on and begin disconnect us from ourselves, from our relationships and from God or our Higher Power.