You may have heard of the famous book The Body Keeps the Score  by Bessel van der Kolk. The title itself carries so much truth: our bodies hold the memory of trauma far longer than we realize. Have you ever jumped at something and thought, “I don’t know where that reaction came from?”  That’s trauma living in front of you. Your body remembers how to react when something feels even remotely similar to a past painful event, sometimes without you consciously realizing it. Think