A collective pandemic traumaversary
Can you feel it?
We are hovering.
Near the one year mark of this pandemic.
Do you remember the eeriness of last year?
I remember it felt like if I looked up, it would be grey skies and crows circling.
How can traumaversaries impact us?
I am writing to you today about traumaversaries. Did I make up that word? Maybe. It’s just trauma + anniversary, gently smushed together. These tricky little beasts (I say that mostly lovingly) can affect many spheres of our lives. As a survivor, writer, and trauma-informed educator, I am honored to share a bit about how traumaversaries can touch us. This is my world in many ways. And maybe it’s yours too.
If you have ever experienced…
What is a Traumaversary?
If you have ever experienced strange (or deeply familiar) bodily sensations, flashbacks, returns to old coping strategies, and waves of grief and sadness (among many other possibilities) before the anniversary of a traumatic event rolled around - you might have experienced a natural response to a traumaversary.