Trauma isn't just what happened. It's what happened inside you when it happened, and what your body has been doing ever since to keep you safe. The hypervigilance. The numbness. The way certain smells or sounds or conversations send you somewhere you don't want to go.

The event may be over. But for your nervous system, the file never closed. And so it keeps responding as if the threat is still active, because neurologically, it is. Healing from trauma is possible. Not as a return to some previous version of yourself, but as the discovery of someone more whole. At coeo, that's what we work toward, together.