Trauma irrespective of magntitude plays out in our physiology in the same way

Big T trauma or little T trauma - the defining feature of trauma is loss, irrespective of the magnitude of the trauma 

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Whether you’ve experienced what might be defined as a big T trauma such as a car crash, a fire, loss of a loved one or a little T trauma which has the same effects ultimately but might be less obvious than the big T trauma which might not necessarily be a big event in your life, the defining feature of all trauma is loss. 



It may be that in a car crash you lose a leg, or you may have lost a loved one.

Little T traumas are more defined by a loss of sense of self.

And the physiology of trauma is the same whatever the trauma is, whether it is a big T trauma -  a car crash for instance or a little T trauma where you may have grown up in childhood and lost your sense of identity, because your love from your parents for instance was conditional and you had to prove yourself; you had to go the extra mile, you had to change yourself, as an example, to be loved, to receive love from your primary caregivers -  this is very similar.

Any loss in our lives can be the definition of a trauma if it plays out in our lives and trauma can play out and manifest in many which ways such as mentally, physically, emotionally, energetically, spiritually, relationally.