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Why trauma survivors go silent
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Silence after trauma can feel like a wall, and our first instinct is to tear it down with questions. We go looking for the “right” thing to say, the perfect prompt, the moment they finally explain what happened. But what if that quiet is not avoidance at all, and what if our urgency is the very thing that makes recovery harder?
We unpack the hidden mechanics of trauma silence through a nervous system lens: fight flight freeze, cortisol and adrenaline, the prefrontal cortex going offline, and why logic cannot override a body in survival mode. We dig into four realities that…
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