Nearly every week, someone sits across from me and says, “I don’t think I have trauma.” They say it gently. Almost apologetically. And as we talk, I notice the way their shoulders stay slightly raised. The way their breath never quite drops into their belly. The way they flinch — almost imperceptibly — when they describe someone getting too close. Trauma does not always announce itself as catastrophe. Sometimes it is simply the body that never learned it was safe. Roughly 70%

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