Letting the past settle in bones

Your heart races and you don't know why. A tone of voice, a certain smell, the way the light falls in a room—and suddenly you are no longer here. You are back there, in a moment your mind has tried to bury but your body has never forgotten. Complex trauma does not announce itself with a single event. It leaves its fingerprints on your nervous system, on the way you react before you can think, on t...