April Newsletter

We define horror in trauma as experiences in which we witness something deeply disturbing that signals to the nervous system that the world is not safe. What I think is happening to a lot of us right now is that we're getting chronic, low-dose exposure to exactly this kind of material — with no context, no interruption, and no discharge. The accumulation doesn't disappear. It settles. And there is a meaningful difference between a nervous system frozen in accumulated horror and one that is moving, even slowly, toward completion.