Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoThe Surfer's Secret to Healing Trauma
Recovery from trauma depends more on learning to return to one's regulated state after overwhelm than on avoiding distress or staying perpetually stable.
When we hear about children who've survived brutal abductions, we expect that once they're back with their loving family and have had some therapy, they'll be okay. However, it's not that simple. The story of Shasta Groene in Gregg Olsen's book, Out of the Woods, is tough to read. Molested and exploited by multiple people, she seemed to have caught few breaks. Her first post-abduction treatment program was itself abusive, and her father was a thief.