Complex trauma & chronic pain and illness
If we experience complex trauma & chronic pain/illness, sometimes the advice or responses we get can feel invalidating.
We might have heard that every single chronic pain symptom or condition is because of our trauma.
We might have heard that we just need to do emotional, psychological or mindset work to "clear" our symptoms or conditions, or that our condition is "all in our head".
We might have been to practitioners who denied any correlation between our chronic pain/illness and traumatic events, even if we feel this connection.
We might have seen practitioners who refused to take the emotional and mental components of our chronic pain/illness into account in sessions or treatment plans.
It can feel incredibly healing and supportive to be validated in our experience of chronic pain/illness & complex trauma.
We might want to be supported, heard, and believed for what WE know is true about our experience. We might want to hear: yes,...
