Trauma Healing for Big T Traumas

Perhaps a little heavy for a Thursday morning, but if you’ve experienced a Big T trauma, it’s likely not far from your thoughts most mornings. And certainly the traumas of the world, as I wrote about last week, are ever present for anyone paying attention.

A Big T trauma is often referred to as a single incident trauma. A one-time event where we’ve experienced or witnessed something that threatened our sense of safety, either real or perceived, and it left its mark. And, important to note, trauma is subjective and not about the event, but what happens inside you because of the event.

It may feel like it’s impossible not to be triggered and so we learn to live with it, minimise it, think about all the people who have it so much worse.

But it’s possible to feel the discomfort, the sensations of being triggered, safely. Our bodies can handle the ebb and flow of these sensations. We can safely feel the rise of anger, the flush of shame, the charge of anxiety or the constriction of sadness. Our bodies are safe containers for these feelings. And, they pass as we learn to tend to them rather than avoid them or shut them down.

And, at the same time as we learn to feel, safely, without being taken out by feelings, (and for most of us this is something we have to learn) we can work on the way the brain codes trauma and “unstick” the memory of the event. The stickiness is what make the alert system react as if the event is still happening.”

Havening Techniques® work beautifully for Big T traumas, I’ve been writing about them here and on Substack. Reach out if you’d like to know more.

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