Just...wow. So much in here. It makes me think, weirdly or not, of something I came to when researching the Battle of Budapest in an attempt to trace my family's survival story. That sooner or later, everyone's story was the same. They all experienced dumb luck--a bomb falling on this apartment, not that one, a checkpoint to the left, not the right.
But many survivors tuned into something else as well: Call it intuition, or a letting go of the reins. They allowed themselves to do things that were illogical at face value, but carried them through despite the fear. Thank you for sharing this.
I'd never thought of feeling trapped, but that exactly describes my response to trauma. Thank you Mimi for sharing your story & Joy for finding a little bit of all of us in the experience.
l identify strongly with the feeling of being trapped, which pervaded my own early traumatic experience as an Evangelical wife - thank you for verbalizing this!
Just...wow. So much in here. It makes me think, weirdly or not, of something I came to when researching the Battle of Budapest in an attempt to trace my family's survival story. That sooner or later, everyone's story was the same. They all experienced dumb luck--a bomb falling on this apartment, not that one, a checkpoint to the left, not the right.
But many survivors tuned into something else as well: Call it intuition, or a letting go of the reins. They allowed themselves to do things that were illogical at face value, but carried them through despite the fear. Thank you for sharing this.
I'd never thought of feeling trapped, but that exactly describes my response to trauma. Thank you Mimi for sharing your story & Joy for finding a little bit of all of us in the experience.
There are so many sources of trauma, but there are some common effects. We can learn a lot from each other about how to heal from them.
l identify strongly with the feeling of being trapped, which pervaded my own early traumatic experience as an Evangelical wife - thank you for verbalizing this!
Yes, Mimi and I talked about being trapped in a relationship or religion as a type of trauma...a slow moving kind.