16 Warning Signs of Trauma Exposure Response

If you are someone who has experienced trauma throughout your life or you are a trauma worker and want to maintain your health and well-being, I recommend Trauma Stewardship, An everyday Guide to Caring for Self When Caring For Others by Laura van Denoot Lipsky. Her TED talk, stories and guidance has helped me tremendously as I support those who have experienced many degrees of trauma. 

Knowing the warning signs of trauma exposure response is extremely valuable. It gives you a place to start with your own healing process. 

Visit the website: www.traumastewardship.com 

       

 16 Warning Signs:

 Feeling Helpless and Hopeless

·      A Sense That One can Never Do Enough

·      Hypervigilant

·      Diminished Creativity

·      Inability to Embrace Complexity

·      Minimizing

·      Chronic Exhaustion/Physical Ailments

·      Inability to Listen/Deliberate Avoidance

       Dissociative Moments     

·      Sense of Persecution

·      Guilt

·      Fear

·      Anger and Cynicism

·      Inability to Empathize/Numbing

·      Addictions

       Grandiosity: An Inflated Sense of Importance to One's work