The Importance of Trauma in Relationships

"Trauma is a big word. And I think people hear that, and they think what we would define as big T trauma," she says. "But really, trauma is anything that stuns or shocks the system." It could be witnessing something like something violent on TV for a kid; it could be losing someone's best friend. 'It can be any number of things that we don't always think of as traumatic but it was too much'