Trama Challenges our Basic Securities

Balance in Life

We have Basic Securities that create a balanced Emotional and Physical foundation as to how we live our life.

 

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Trauma affects the Physical, Emotional and our Mental abilities.

As humans we have basic psychological needs. 

We have the need to feel relatively safe.

And the need to trust other people.

We expect to have some control over our lives.

We want to feel that we are of value.

We have an inate need to feel close to other people.

The Headington Institute shares this information:

Safety: Traumatic events can alter your assumptions
and beliefs about how safe the world really is.

Trust: When a traumatic event is man-made, 
it can undermine the basic 
sense of trust you have in other people.

Control: Traumatic events can shatter 
your ideas and ideals about how much 
control you really have over your life and choices.

Esteem and value: Traumatic events can disrupt 
your sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and inherent value.

Intimacy: Impaired trust following traumatic events 
can make intimacy with other people difficult.

 

It is possible to find hope and peace following a traumatic event - I found it imperative to allow myself to feel what I was feeling .  At times it was very dark but... as I allowed my human mind to experience life I was able to move through more peacefully.