− Russell Brand, actor, writer, and activist. Sober from heroin and other substances since 2002.
Trauma is an emotional and physical response to something that was too much, too soon, or too fast (or too little, too late, too slow) for an individual's nervous system to process.
Trauma is the disconnection from self, the separation from the body and emotions.
Trauma is energy stuck in the body.
Humans live with physical trauma, developmental/emotional trauma, intergenerational trauma, and collective trauma.
As overwhelming as all of that may sound, trauma isn’t the problem. The problem is that our culture has stigmatized healthy responses to trauma.