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Being “triggered” (sometimes referred to as “activated”) is when our defences are engaged disproportionately to the situation we’re facing now, and more appropriate to past traumatic situations (source). The intensity of activation will vary based on many factors. The higher intensities include “retraumatization”, a vivid reliving of a traumatic event.[2] Read more…

We are doing our best so that you do. Here is what we are doing to make the space as safe as possible: we have community guidelines that we’re constantly evolving and putting care into. Feel free to take a look at the current version and see if something could Read more…

Trauma can sound like a big word, and, yes, some events that generate trauma can feel really intense to contemplate. But, in the broader sense, we are all touched by trauma, in direct or indirect ways.

There are parts of the book and other materials that we struggle with, too, for various reasons. Here’s what we can say to the part of you that’s tentative or afraid: We’re doing this together. Content: although the book does go at times into personal traumas (in fact, it has Read more…