COACHING PROGRAMS

WHAT IS TRAUMA? 

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Psychological trauma could be defined as the individual experience of an event or enduring conditions of this event that overwhelms the individual's ability to integrate their emotional experience - outside of our ability to cope in the moment. Basically, very stressful events that shatter our sense of security, causing us to feel like helpless victims in a dangerous world.Most common types of trauma come from Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, domestic violence, or even just witnessing violence, rape, war or combat, natural disasters, live threatening illnusses or injuries, loss of a loved one, and then you have the childhood psychological and emotional traumas that come from shame, rejection, bullying, abandonment, etc. The human brain can process eleven million bits of information every second, but your conscious mind can handle only forty to fifty bits of information per second.So what the research says is that all those other bits of information we take in during a traumatic event are what stays in the body as was called implicit memory It’s these implicit memories that can leave us feeling triggered by things we aren’t fully aware of or that don’t make sense to us yet that we have these massive emotional reactions to. For example, if you were abused by someone who wears a specific kind of cologne and you smell that cologne it could trigger a trauma response. So when we do somatic therapy or somatic breath-work we’re working toward building new neurological pathways that move traumatic experiences from implicit memory (basically the body experiencing the trauma in the present moment) to explicit memories where we become physiologically aware that the event happened in the past - which allows us to feel safe and move beyond the trauma.