There Is No Health Without Mental Health (7/21)

More people need to know this…

Trauma often reshapes the way you understand and express compassion.

You’ve felt pain, suffocating helplessness, or isolation firsthand, so you know what it’s like to struggle beneath the surface. This gives you a heightened sensitivity to the unspoken signs of distress in others—because you’ve walked that path yourself.

Your compassion isn’t just about being kind; it’s a genuine, true understanding of what it means to be hurt and a deep desire to help alleviate and possible even safe others from that pain(similar to your experience).

It’s not easy to hear but the compassion that comes from trauma isn’t always easy to navigate because it’s often felt too deep and too much (without a filter).