Betrayal trauma is the emotional impact of your experience after your trust or well-being is violated. It is most often experienced in attachment relationships, like caregivers and children, or in romantic partnerships. You have to continue to rely on the betrayer for support, care, shelter, or other basic needs. These experiences of betrayal can be so traumatic that you feel you will never want to trust anyone again.
The concept of generational trauma is built upon the reality that trauma sets into motion certain genetic processes. If, for example, your grandparent endured trauma, it's quite possible that you will feel the impact. You may feel symptoms. You may inherit coping mechanisms. The possibilities appear to be endless. Therefore, the impacts are equally endless. How can we manage such a covert legacy?
What’s a trauma bond? This sort of connection is actually a relationship shaped by unreliable, inconsistent reinforcement patterns. Promises are broken. Calm periods don't last. ”Out-of-nowhere” intensity and negativity always follow. Everything seems complicated and erratic. Anxiety is an integral part of your interactions (or lack thereof).
When you have been through trauma, it has a real impact on your brain. Sometimes you feel it intensely and often. Overtimes, you may try to go about your life and sense something more subtle is hindering you. But the encouraging thing? Science tells us that your brain needn’t stay stuck in a traumatized state. Research make it clear that your brain, even after the worst experiences can rebound.
Trauma treatment recovery can be so tough because we fear being so broken by our painful experience that we can’t move on. Yet, this fear actually gets in our way. Anxiety about falling apart can become a preoccupation. It can impede our recovery as we rush to be “okay” attempting to skip crucial steps to wholeness and wellbeing. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
