Britt Frank notes "the definition of trauma that I use comes from Dr Peter Levine, who founded Somatic Experiencing, and trauma is anything that's too much, too fast, too soon.
"And my little addition to that is: or not enough. Trauma is anything you got that you didn't need or anything that you didn't get that you did need.”
She adds that "trauma is an internal process. It's a brain indigestion process. A trauma response is when our brain either throws up or goes into freeze. So you can eat bad food and not necessarily get sick.
"Same thing with trauma. You can experience a traumatic event and not necessarily have a trauma response.
“But the things that we call panic, anxiety, things like that, are often trauma responses, which is the symptom or the behavior or the manifestation of the trauma that we experienced or witnessed."
Britt Frank, LSCSW, SEP is a licensed neuropsychotherapist and author of book The Science of Stuck.
This audio is from her video interview for the ongoing free Trauma Super Conference - featuring 60+ experts "on the impacts trauma can have and how to gain optimal health on every level."
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Dr Peter Levine is a presenter at the ongoing Reset Conference: "Self-regulating for trauma healing"
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Dr. Levine is author of The Healing Trauma Online Course, and a speaker at The Healing Trauma Summit - Learn more and find links in article: Resources on How To Understand And Recover From Trauma.
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