My work — whether this is my person-to-person therapy services or everything I write and teach about online — is oriented towards helping those who come from trauma backgrounds (whether this is isolated trauma or complex relational trauma) heal from, make sense of, and move forward with their lives, building something beautiful after really hard things have happened.
Something tells me that, in the coming years, my work as a trauma therapist may be required more than ever.
And yet also, now, in the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) — the new viral strain in the coronavirus family that affects the lungs and respiratory system — I’m particularly and acutely aware that the folks I do my work with. You who come from trauma backgrounds, or even you who are partnered to those who come from trauma backgrounds, may be having an especially challenging time given that COVID-19 may be triggering your trauma histories (or that of your loved one).
This is a unique experience in an extraordinary time.
Not only to live through COVID-19 and to tolerate the anxiety, isolation and unknown that, seemingly, collectively all of us are experiencing, but to also have a rise in your own trauma symptoms and memories in concert and conjunction with what’s happening in the world.
[To read the rest of this article by Annie Wright, LMFT, click here.]
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