Trauma and Your Brain.

There is so much on this topic that I want to say, but I am starting with the basics. It is my hope in doing so that I provide you with a new understanding of how we experience trauma as deeply unique individuals within an amazingly adaptive common process.

First: a definition of trauma. One of my teachers, MC McDonald (find her online here — she’s amazing), from whom I learned almost all of what I write here, shares that her favorite definition of trauma comes from Robert Stolorow, and it’s this:

Trauma is an emotional experience that lacks a relational home.