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• After the overwhelming experience is over and they have survived, traumatized individuals are left with only 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, clients assume that they are still in danger or somehow at fault.
• Without a way to understand sensory and body memories, survivors of trauma come to either distrust themselves or distrust others.
• Telling the story of what they remember sometimes brings relief but does not resolve the ‘living legacy’ of traumatic reactions that continue to torment the client day after day.