Change Your Holiday
Wait a minute, weren’t Thanksgiving and Christmas 2023 just last week? Here they come again. Celebration doesn’t mix well with trauma. Everyone talks about the busyness of the season as a source of stress, but for survivors of childhood trauma, the struggle with the holidays has much deeper implications.
How to Handle Triggers During the Holidays
Does that sound familiar? There are so many reasons the holidays make trauma survivors feel like they’re going crazy they are almost too numerous to name. I have an added bonus this year. My aging mother-in-law has come to stay with us. Being a caregiver isn’t easy for anyone. For a trauma survivor, it’s nearly impossible. Back in October, things started out well enough. I had worked on healing from trauma for many years and was doing so well I thought I’d be fine.