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