Not everything is trauma

As a clinician who spent a career learning about trauma I am now of the opinion not everything is trauma.

Not everything that deviates outside the “norm” needs a DSM code or to be pathologized in any way. Some of us are just just savage and wild or even melancholy. It’s a soul thing. I include the soul path within nature, although some will argue it’s just biology.

Do the trauma work when needed, but then let it go and remember you’re a human with a unique energy imprint that incarnated to be alive. We can stop at the trauma work without understanding that’s it’s not for the sake of doing trauma work. It’s to learn how to be present if you were not taught that. It’s to learn how to build capacity in the nervous system to have a bigger life. It’s to learn how to feel; especially into the whispers of our path calling and the courage to follow it.

Traumas and pain do hijack the truth of our innocence and undigested pain does recreate experiences, and not everything can be tracked back to trauma. Personal trauma in particular.

In a session I can easily say, oh, you’re like this because of this, and I may be accurate but it’s never the whole picture. This conversation is nuanced, and it’s edgy for me to begin to unpack it publicly.

We all have stuck energy inside us waiting to unwind. This is just normal human stuff.

We are spirit and matter.

How do you choose to orient yourself?