In Releasing Our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma, Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hubl co-author an exploration of how trauma impacts not only individual bodies, but communities and societies. They reference Janina Fisher’s definition as a helpful starting point for understanding trauma: trauma is “an ongoing, felt lack of safety, that impacts us mentally and emotionally, originating from a broad range of harmful experiences”. 

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