Let Light In

“There's a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in”
- Leonard Cohen

The power of the therapeutic relationship is real. It truly can help to restore the traumatized brain, the entire person... When we think of trauma, we need to build our understanding of it beyond PTSD, which is often understood as singular event trauma(s). What we know from research and science is that most trauma occurs in development and is considered relational trauma, or Complex PTSD. This tells us how important our early relationships are in the construction of later attachments - throughout the lifespan. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a non-emotional brain (person). Science shows us that we all have an emotional brain, but if we weren't attended to in a nurturing way, with empathic attunement to our felt experience as children, or at other crucial times in our lives, we then live in an inhibited brain, keeping us from establishing rich, and fully connected relationships. Developmental trauma needs the safe attunement of secure people, and a trusted therapist, to let the light in to the cracks of trauma, to heal the soul, and the brain's responses, so that a person can live a full, meaningful life. This is possible, and this is the beauty of therapy- which literally means- to heal.