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“I promise you can still make a beautiful life for yourself, even if you lost years of it to abuse, mental illness, or trauma”

This resource was created for you by Cassie Connor, trauma therapist, retreat host, podcaster, rugmaker, poet, and founder of Nest Holistic.

This guide is here to support you in getting started on your healing journey. Please remember that no online guide can replace personalized treatment from a qualified mental health provider.

What is Trauma?

“Trauma is a psychic injury, lodged in our nervous system, mind, and body, lasting long past the originating incident(s), triggerable at any moment. It is a constellation of hardships, composed of the wound itself and the residual burdens that our woundedness imposes on our bodies and souls:

• the unresolved emotions they visit upon us;
• the coping dynamics they dictate;
• the tragic or melodramatic or neurotic scripts we unwittingly but inexorably live out;
• and, not least, the toll these take on our bodies”

— Gabor Maté in “The Myth of Normal: trauma, illness and healing in a toxic culture” p. 24-25

Trauma exists not only in our minds, but in our bodies.

Trauma impacts us on every level - body, mind and spirit.

Every trauma survivor has a unique experience, but here is an incomplete list of examples of the complex ways that trauma can impact us:

Healing is possible for you