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I have been in the field of trauma recovery for over 20 years. I have worked in the most challenging of circumstances: in prisons, on natural disaster sites, with combat veterans, first responders, and search and rescue. I myself have experienced healing from trauma, not only from childhood experiences and military service, but from an incident that led to being lost and alone in a 632,000-acre wilderness area for 3 days.
I am actively challenging the stigma associated with people who have experienced trauma. There is an assumption that these events “break people” and that negative, lifelong challenges are inevitable. I am—along with an entire community of healers—pushing back against that status quo by naming something truer, fuller, and far more human: trauma can shape people, but it does not define their limits, their worth, or their future.
Trauma survivors are not fragile artifacts to be pitied or managed. They are individuals whose nervous systems did exactly what they needed to do to survive. Their responses are not evidence of weakness but of adaptation. And when healing is supported—through community, therapy, movement, nature, and personal resilience—people often emerge with capacities that are deeper, more attuned, and more powerful than before.
Victims of trauma are not broken vessels waiting to be fixed. Your experiences thus far in life have prepared you for your worst day. Anyone can tap into those attributes when times get dark. Healing is a process of uncovering, not replacing. There is nothing to be “unbroken”. The experience can refine you, not define you. Bravery is not something to be achieved—it’s something to be revealed!