When You Can’t Hide The Trauma Anymore

Christine Arata
6 min readApr 5, 2019

(First published January 14, 2019)

There is a facade many of us parade behind to cover up past traumas. We want to show that we’re normal when actually we’re struggling. But what happens when you can’t hide it anymore? It takes a lot of effort to hide your true self, spinning your wheels to do so while not really living. And in fact, that spinning continues the act of being traumatized. You aren’t…

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