Trauma and the Wounded Self

Trauma and the Wounded Self

The Body Keeps the Score

On how trauma lives in the nervous system as present-tense experience, and why talk alone cannot heal what the body has learned

Trauma and the Wounded Self

Trauma and Recovery

On how institutional power silences trauma survivors, and why remembering what happened is always a political act

Trauma and the Wounded Self

The Realm of Hungry Ghosts

On how addiction medicates unbearable inner pain, and why understanding trauma is the prerequisite for healing rather than condemnation

Trauma and the Wounded Self

The Polyvagal Theory

On how the nervous system recognizes safety through relationship, and why genuine regulation requires a living, attuned other

Trauma and the Wounded Self

The Path Through

On how trauma's full integration can move beyond symptom relief into post-traumatic growth, and what conditions make the wound itself become generative