> **🌱 Planted:** Sun 10 November 2024 --- Trauma, the Greek word for "wound", is any experience that leaves us feeling anxious, distressed or unsafe. Us humans feel this way when we’re unable to metabolise or process experiences that are simply too overwhelming for us. Traumatic experiences can be tough to metabolise because we weren't equipped with the necessary internal resources we needed in order to adequately process the events that happened during the experience. > [!quote] That's why [[Gabor Mate]] says: > “Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.” --- **➡️ Next:** [[When Trauma is repeated, it becomes Complex]]