TRAUMA WEBINAR

I participated in a webinar on Trauma and Sensory Strategies.  It was super interesting.  It talked about how when a person goes through trauma it will not just be the senses that you think that are effected.  A person who is assaulted on a street at night may be effected by dark streets and strangers walking up on them but they may also be effected by the smell of baking bread because there was a bakery on the block where they were assaulted and they remember the smell of baking bread.

Or a child who is beaten by there parent and then removed by child services, may remember the assault but also the feel of the blanket they owned that they liked but had to give up when they were taken away.  The feel of that blanket maybe the only thing they remember that was a good memory of their parents.  Getting that blanket as a present and how it felt.

It was an insightful webinar and makes you think of all sorts of things in your life that were sensory rather than our usual I see the present or I taste the food.

Until tomorrow...