How Mindfulness Meditation Can Heal Trauma

Jaymie Gill
Curious
Published in
5 min readNov 24, 2020

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Trauma is loosely defined as “an emotional response to a terrible event”. which can be anything we’ve experienced that has left a profound impact on us. Not only does it cause mental injury, to our mind, it physically changes the structure of our brains.

When we’ve experienced prolonged suffering, our brain doesn’t inhibit the fight-or-flight response. Why? Because it’s always been in that

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Jaymie Gill
Curious

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