Tiny Traumas

When little things have big impacts. This book is for anyone who feels that theyre sleepwalking through life, looking for answers to challenging emotions and the practical tools to begin living the life they want. How are you really feeling? A bit blah, meh or simply I dont actually know. If this is your honest, knot-in-the-throat response, take a moment breathe and let me reassure you that its not you, its whats happened to you over the years. You cant quite put your finger on it, but somehow you just dont feel like youre thriving or truly participating in your own life. This is the result of a build-up of lifes scrapes, papercuts and bruises that have left you feeling simply not ok. Emotional illiteracy, microaggressions, challenging familial relationships, toxic positivity and gaslighting are some examples of what I call Tiny T trauma the impact of which often leads to problems such as high-functioning anxiety, languishing, perfectionism, comfort eating and sleep disturbance, to name but a few. We have been fooled into believing that Tiny T trauma doesnt matter. There always seem to be huge, intractable problems in the world, so we tend to overlook those small, everyday injuries that drill down to your core. This leaves us with an undercurrent of constant melancholy and niggling pinpricks of anxiety, all wrapped up in the film of other peoples Insta-perfect lives. But life doesnt have to be experienced in this suffocating way; we owe it to ourselves to develop Awareness, Acceptance, and take Action on our Tiny T trauma, no matter how small, and to start living every day as we deserve.