Every person who has experienced trauma interacts with every other person’s trauma. It is a tangle that impacts everything we do. Our struggles extend into our families, friendships, and communities, into our places of work and worship, our organizations, and each person’s trauma becomes entwined and interconnected with everyone else’s. Even when we see this matrix of pain and intend to relieve it, what already lives in us undermines what we are able to do. Is it any wonder that the changes we try to bring to our communities, to the world, the things we try to build, sometimes splinter?
