Recovering From Trauma
You know those moments – quiet ones, usually – when something inside you tightens for no obvious reason. Maybe it’s a sudden drop in your stomach. A jolt of tension in your chest. A wave of dread that doesn’t match the room you’re standing in. Nothing “bad” is happening. You’re safe. Your life is good. And yet your body reacts as if an old alarm has just gone off.
This is the subtle, confusing reality of unresolved trauma. Not necessarily the movie version. Not necessarily the dramatic flashbacks or collapsing-to-your-knees kind of trauma, just the quiet, persistent echoes woven into your nervous system, shaping your reactions, long after the original troubles have gone.
Going deeper into the problem
Here’s the thing about trauma: It isn’t about the event itself. It’s about the meaning your mind has made of it.
Arguments, instability, emotional unpredictability, childhood tension, bullying, pressure…Your nervous system adapted. It learned to brace. To scan. To predict. To hold itself together.
To be alert in ways that made perfect sense at the time. And now, months or years later, those same strategies show up when you don’t need that same protection anymore, and it makes your world feel scary or unsettled still, even though there is no danger:
Feeling tense for no reason
Expecting something to go wrong
Difficulty relaxing, even with people you love
Hesitating to trust, open up, or rely on others
Feeling like you’re “too much” or “not enough”
Being pulled between wanting change and fearing it
Feeling guilty for struggling when your life is “good” now
It’s not because you’re weak. It’s because part of you still believes it’s protecting you, and that old protective part is simply too good at its job.
What trauma recovery with me looks like
We don’t dig endlessly into the past so much as look at what is going on in the present.
When necessary, we help experience memories as the older mind that survived instead of experiencing the memory the same as you experienced the event(s) at the time.
We get curious.With imagination, hypnotic processes, and the Psychological Illusion Model, we gently explore the invisible stories your mind formed during difficult times, and loosen the grip of those outdated patterns.
We help your nervous system stop reacting to thoughts of danger so your body feels safer.
You learn to:
Let your mind and body stand down from old protective duties.
Live in the experiences that you have chosen instead of the ones that were imposed upon you.
Stop bracing for hits that aren’t coming.
Trust and connect with yourself here in the present.
Move through life without the constant background hum of alertness
Feel more connected with your partner, kids, and friends.
You don’t become a different person. You become more yourself – the version that isn’t weighed down by old echoes.
If you’re ready
If you want to stop carrying old survival patterns into new chapters…If you want a life where your body no longer reacts to ghosts…If you’re ready to feel safe, settled, and strong from the inside out…
Book a session.
Let’s help your past finally loosen its grip—so you can feel here and now with clarity, confidence, and freedom, instead of half in the past.
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