Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives

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We’re surrounded by it and yet we don’t talk much about it. It’s like a dirty word for a dirty secret that most — if not all of us — carry around.

Not all trauma is from bad things that happened to you, it can also come from good things that didn’t happen to you. Some have experienced acute trauma. Others just grew up in environments that constantly traumatized them, for…