Candid Talk

cultural attitudes towards trauma, within the bounds of psychology, medicine, and the larger society, are confounding and terribly out of date. the way the body and the spirit responds to trauma differs from person to person, but for the most part, we all reel. to experience post-traumatic stress in the wake of trauma is not unlikely, and therefore we should work to shift gears as a culture to accommodate this truth. when faced with disaster, violent or otherwise, humans have a series of psychobiological mechanisms that kick in to assist us. however, the undeniable emotional intensity, and resulting spiritual crisis, of experiencing violence and loss is what really hits us at our core. given this fact, why are we still questioning the existence and validity of psychic trauma?

Stories of Loss