Latest / The Caribbean Workplace Wellness Channel
Why trauma survivors push help away
Send us Fan Mail
Watching someone you love struggle with trauma can feel like standing on the shore while they thrash in deep water and then, impossibly, push away the life preserver. We unpack why that moment happens and why it so often feels personal to the people trying hardest to help.
We start with a counterintuitive idea that changes how you read a survivor’s behavior: silence can be communication. Trauma can shatter a person’s ability to translate fear, sensory fragments, and memory into a clean story, and pressing for details too soon can do real harm. If you’ve ever searched for “how…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.