One of my favorite quotes is by trauma researcher and therapist Dr. Peter Levine, he says: "Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness" Trauma is most compounded when we are facing it alone, when we do not have anyone there with us giving us comfort, space to express what we feel. Possibly it is the most lonely feeling in the whole world, to hold a story that has never been spoken, to hold pain that is unseen. That is why
