Traumatic Portraits: Integrating the Past and Present

Ive struggled with depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember, and Ive tried everything from medication to dietary changes to shake the issues. In 2017 my therapist suggested that I had survived an abusive childhood but I laughed it off, listing a number of pleasant memories as a counter argument. However, in the years that followed, the more I read about trauma and how the body writes that terror to our DNA, I began to accept the truth and reframe my history. 

One of the first...