The Body Keeps the Score

Reflections on trauma, triggers, and healing + a gift and an invitation

Gracious reader,

I recently found myself in a rather mundane situation that triggered a response in me that I’m not proud of.

A banal exchange took a vicious turn after my interlocutor said something that elicited an inordinately powerful response from me—which emerged from somewhere deep and dark within my soul that I did not even know existed.

My face…