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• Despite having survived, trauma survivors are often left with a fragmented, confusing sense of what happened.
• Traumatic reminders continue to keep the trauma ‘alive’ by repetitively re-activating the stress response system and survival defenses.
• Unaware that these reactions are traumatic memories held in the body, they assume that they are still in danger or somehow at fault.
• They still feel unsafe, still re-experience the same emotions of shame, fear, anger and hopelessness over and over again.
• Telling the story of what happened sometimes brings relief but does not resolve the ‘living legacy’ of traumatic reactions that continue to torment the client day after day.