Have you ever wondered why certain situations make you feel anxious, angry, or unsafe, even when there’s no real danger? Or why you have intrusive memories or flashbacks from stressful or traumatic events that barge in without warning? These are actually common symptoms of unhealed trauma. Triggers and intrusive memories are unfinished trauma responses stored in the subconscious mind and nervous system. Often, these can continue to affect you years or even decades after the t

Trauma is more than a stressful experience. It changes your brain and alters your beliefs. Two people can experience the same event. One person feels shaken but moves on. The other develops anxiety, seems to become hypervigilant, and experiences intrusive flashbacks of the experience. Why? Because trauma isn’t about what happened to you, it’s about what happened within you as a result of what happened to you. As bestselling author, Gabor Mate describes it , trauma is not the