Dear Suz:

My answer: underneath (as in before) the trauma there is a “beginner’s mind”- the brain you had as a baby, before you learned anything about who you are.

Trauma taught you things about yourself that are not true, and those things led you to dysfunction. For example, you learned that you are helpless. Healing is unlearning that and then, with a beginner’s mind, learning the truth, that you are capable and resourceful, not helpless.

anita