The Importance of Empathy in Trauma

When we start to recognize that the body is in constant preparation, or as we were talking about searching for drama, then we understand that it's not these individuals' fault. And that's the empathy that's often missing when we're calling someone a drama queen. It's like they, you know, the sound that you might hear, like my voice right now, someone who is more prone and has had trauma. They might hear my voice as threatening,. Because I'm speaking in a lower, slower down way right now, to prove a point. For those individuals, that slowness feels threatening.