Trauma Rewires Your Brain — So Does Healing

You are more than a collection of trauma responses

You are more than a collection of trauma responses

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I would have described myself as passionate. That’s how I characterized the way that I felt everything — from ecstatic joy to unholy rage. I didn’t feel anything by halves, and I was as quick to feel emotions as I was to react to them.

Trauma therapy taught me that what …