The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Trauma disrupts the ever-evolving construction of identity, resulting in the perpetual return of an event that refuses to be experienced as past; a ‘double wound,’ both the event and its enduring symptom. It is about loss of connection—to ourselves, to our bodies, to others, and to the world around us. 

I lose myself, I reappear.