“Illnesses from Long-Term Trauma”| the Holistic Health View
"The wound is the place where the light enters you" Rumi ~Reality in Consciousness Join Us! * Mailing List * Recharge and Support Group * Blog We all know too well that traumatic events happen to us, neighbors, friends, relatives, and so on. It is distressing, intolerable, and when we also forego a lifestyle attached to poor coping skills, trauma can affect the body’s responses to outer stimuli. The memories of a traumatic episode take a tremendous amount of energy to entertain by the mind. This could be the reason why a lot of victims of childhood trauma gluttonize in alcohol, food, sex, drugs, or all forms of subjective pain because trauma complicates the brain area that communicates the physical embodied feeling of being alive. Being traumatized means to perpetually organize our lives as if it were still going on unchanged today. Every new encounter is challenged from the past based on adverse experiences. I...