Are you experiencing intrusive thoughts, flashbacks or nightmares?  Perhaps panic prevails upon you without warning.  These experiences may be related to trauma.  Any experience, large or small, that overwhelms our ability to cope and leaves a significant and lasting negative impression can be referred to as traumatic, no matter how early in our lives. Events beyond our control can rattle our core and make our lives unmanageable. Assault, molestation and death are events that can remain buried in our “bodily memory”  bringing chronic disorder and emotional pain.  Complex trauma, or CT refers to subtle but prolonged periods of abandonment and abuse. This can include poverty and lack of safety due to parental neglect.  Adverse childhood experiences are directly correlated to physical and psychological symptoms later in life.