Trauma Therapy in South Jordan
The therapy world tends to sort trauma into two categories: big T trauma and little t trauma. Big T trauma would be the traditional view of trauma. This might include a car accident, death of a loved one, or an assault. Big T trauma impacts your life, your comfort, and your ability to function calmly in the world.
Little t trauma are those small events or memories that feel like they shouldn’t be a big deal, but they still are. This might look like the embarrassment of getting laughed at when you fell at school, so now you never wear skirts in public. Little t trauma may be stopping short on the freeway one time, narrowly avoiding an accident. Now you avoid that section of the freeway, even if it’s very inconvenient, because you panic every time you get near that point.
Little t trauma can feel confusing and embarrassing. Why am I freaking out over this dumb thing? Why is my stomach in my throat at the idea of it? Unfortunately, we don’t get to choose which events our brain processes and puts away cleanly and which events get stuck and jumbled.
For me, trauma is any memory that has a physical or emotional reaction, big or small. All trauma is important and deserves to be healed.
Often folks come to me for help with depression or anxiety and deny having experienced trauma. When we dig in a little deeper and reflect, we often find a trauma that created a belief about yourself that has persisted. Perhaps being forgotten from pick up at elementary school created this belief that ‘I’m not important.’ From then on, your brain looks for evidence that you’re not important to others. You can imagine how this could snowball and impact your relationships as an adult.
If you’re tired of the flashbacks and triggers, it might be time for therapy. We can heal those old wounds that keep popping up. Let’s explore and shake off those beliefs about yourself that have been holding you back. I can help.