Tag: trauma care

Trauma Care describes support intended to recognize and respond to the effects of traumatic experiences on emotion, cognition, relationships, embodiment, regulation, and functioning.

Within the Institute, trauma care remains valuable but is not always sufficient for captivity. Captivity-informed care additionally asks whether agency remains constrained, exit is consequential, authority is still controlling interpretation, or the helping relationship itself risks reproducing the architecture of harm.

  • Care Must Move at the Speed of Safety

    Helping fields often have an implicit direction of travel. Speak. Remember. Process. Disclose. Engage. Try. Return. Reconcile. Progress. The movement may be clinically appropriate. The destination may be good. But the pace can still be wrong. For a person shaped…

  • Recognition Before Regulation

    Regulation matters. A nervous system under sustained strain may need help settling. Breathing may help. Grounding may help. Movement may help. Medication may help. Sensory support may help. Sleep may help. Co-regulation may help. A calmer body can make more…