7 Best Articles on Trauma
The most useful articles on trauma from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Trauma Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on trauma by Refind users in 2023.
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How to Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As an Adult
Recovering from childhood adversity is no easy feat—but these strategies can help.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on trauma—all under 10 minutes.
How I Knew It Was Emotional Abuse: The Subtle Signs I Almost Missed
Sometimes it's hard to see the subtle signs of emotional abuse when you're dealing with them. Here's what it looked like for me.
«cognitive dissonance is when your heart needs time to catch up to what the mind already knows.»
How Trauma Can Cause Mental Illness (It's Not Just a Chemical Imbalance)
Many believe their mental illness is solely the result of a chemical imbalance, but often trauma is the root cause.
Coping with Traumatic Experiences
Traumatic experiences can have lasting effects. Fortunately, there are coping strategies and resilience-building techniques that can lessen the effects of trauma. These resources offer a few ideas to…
Trees don’t rush to heal from trauma and neither should we
Trees teach us that healing from trauma involves balancing short-term protection with the slower process of adaptation
Trauma and Forgetting
The word ‘trauma’ — meaning a terrible event we live through that cannot be remembered but which generates painful related symptoms — captures an acute paradox in our relationship to our own…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on trauma.
The Case Against the Trauma Plot
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?
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