What is Trauma?
Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless. We often think of emotional trauma as only resulting from a major event, like a death, assault, injury, a threat to life or safety but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and isolated can be traumatic, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. Trauma can result from a surgery, ongoing stressful experience (especially in early childhood), chronic illness, living in unsafe areas, a relationship ending, a death of a friend or relative, or some type of humiliation or bullying.