Excerpted from Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice
By Giten Tonkov
©2019
Trauma usually results when your fight-or-flight is engaged, but there’s nowhere to run. In everyday life, “nowhere to run” might mean any one of a million things. Maybe it’s literally that you cannot physically or emotionally escape danger; it might mean that something difficult asks too much of your current ability to cope. Trauma also might remain if you could have coped, but didn’t have the opportunity to, or shut yourself down.