carolyn spring ltd
Buxton
Trauma isn’t new. We’ve been facing it as homo sapiens for hundreds of thousands
of years. What’s new is our reframing of the symptoms of trauma as ‘mental
illness’ (we’re mad) or a ‘character flaw’ (we’re bad) and trying to solve it
with drugs or protocolised ‘treatments’. I believe that recovery from complex
childhood trauma is possible – but there is no quick fix. In healing the wounds
inflicted by human beings acting inhumanly, I believe we need a safe tribe where
we can be treated with dignity and respect, with compassion and empathy. And we
need to understand how trauma has changed our brains and bodies so that we can
reverse those changes.
