Trauma: When People Aren’t Safe

Learning how to trust

Photographer: Richard Jaimes, Unsplash

If you’ve had a lifetime of boundary violations — those places where others of a higher rank, say a parent, sibling, teacher, doctor, partner — take advantage, abuse, misuse, intentionally hurt, betray, threaten, dismiss, diminish and regularly twist the truth — it is like being conditioned into a deep and unsettling psychological shifting shore of self-doubt and…