Author name: tatiannasaunders

First the body whispers, then the body speaks, then the body screams. A scream signals desperation, a cry for care, a forced interruption to a context or construct that is no longer sustainable. A lot of us are accustomed to only listening when the body responds drastically. We might lack the safety or ritual to […]

Trauma is any experience that is too much, too fast, or too soon for an individual or community that is not promptly held or grounded in safe connection and belonging afterwards. It is rupture without repair, overwhelm without calm, psychological and physiological pain without expression, so it fragments and gets locked up and away from