The Stages of Trauma Healing

The first stage of trauma healing is: survival. Your body's response to a traumatic experience generates anxiety, known as the fight or flight response. You are acting in a way that will produce acute stress in an effort to save yourself. Focused on preservation, you will be unable to think into the future often left ruminating in your present. 

The Stages of Trauma Healing: Survival

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