(Don’t want to read? Scroll to the bottom to watch my video on this) Trauma is actually something to be grateful for. And we all have it. Let me explain, you probably thought that first sentence I wrote was ridiculous, but bare with me. Of not for trauma then literally humans would have died years and years ago. Trauma develops like a defence mechanism in our brains. I was once watching a course from Dr K on this, and he explained this story I am going to tell you, it will give you a clear idea of how and why trauma forms, and you will understand the goods and bad's of it. The dog in the park story: Imagine some man about 20 or something walking through a park, and he see’s a dog, let’s say he goes down to pet the dog, the dog gets aggressive, and let’s say starts growling and barks. The man gets scared of course, and backs off from the dog, goes away and goes to mind his own business. Now even of the man see’s a dog again trauma will “activate” he will tense up, go into fight or flight mode, even of he see’s a picture of the same dog, next time he see’s the same breed even. That is trauma, you can see why it has some goods and bad’s first off the bad being it stops you from being the person you want to be, that man whether he like’s it or not until he heals from trauma, next time he see’s the same dog or a picture of it or even the same breed he will enter fight or flight mode. But at the same time, you can see the good in trauma aswell like of we did not have it we would undeniably get ourselves in way more dangerous situations more death’s could happen and whatnot, yeah sure. More business mess ups and what not. But the best case scenario is healing from trauma, and that is a post for another day.