Tag: Traumas

Daily Transgender Trauma: The Courage to Just Walk Out the Door

It starts with bravery. You know… feeling the resident fear of something deeply and doing it anyway. Life whizzes by, window by window, stranger by stranger, friend by friend. Some stops are yours, and some aren’t. I’m not the only one here. Painfully aware of that. People fill...

Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma

Most white immigrants to the “New World” didn’t heal from their trauma. Instead, beginning a little over three centuries ago, the elite among them created the concepts of whiteness, of blackness (and redness and yellowness), and of white-body supremacy which sprung from the seedlin...

My Brother Needs Ongoing Help for Past Trauma

I have just returned from a crisis situation that happened while on vacation in Thailand. What was supposed to be a 2.5-week focus on my physical/mental health turned into discovering my brother who lives there, was so far gone with alcohol. A 26er a day of vodka, disgusting living conditions and...

13 PIECES OF THE PUZZLE: THE DIMENSIONALITY OF HEALING TRAUMA

We spend a lot of time invested in the topic of trauma here at Red Door Life. Fortunately, this is a time of great hope and insight for trauma recovery. Thankfully in recent years, it has come to finally be understood that it is not just some abstract inherent defect- but in fact trauma, t...