What is Trauma?   Trauma is not defined by the event itself, but by how overwhelming, unsafe, or inescapable it felt to our nervous system at the time.   We often think of trauma as something that lives in the mind, however research and clinical experience have shown that trauma also lives in our body.   Sometimes we may have clear memories of the traumatic event, and other times, rather than the traumatic event being stored as a clear memory, it can be held as implicit, body