Have you ever stopped to think about how the families and social groups you belong to shape the way in which you express your emotions? Every group has its own unspoken rules about the sorts of feelings that are acceptable and the ways of expressing them that are seen to be normal.
The problem with trauma is that is often brings us into conflict with these hidden rules. We may find ourselves experiencing traumatic stress over an event or set of personal circumstances that we are not able to share with other people, or that others think that we have no right to feel distressed by. This may lead us to question whether we even have the right to feel traumatized.
In this video, I talk about the importance of taking our own trauma symptoms seriously and making space for them. If the feelings are there, then they are valid. There may be right and wrong ways of responding to the feelings, but the feelings themselves are not wrong.
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Higher Than Me 