Tiny Traumas

When little things have big impacts. This book is for anyone who feels that theyâre sleepwalking through life, looking for answers to challenging emotions and the practical tools to begin living the life they want.

âHow are you really feeling? A bit blah, meh or simply âI donât actually knowâ. If this is your honest, knot-in-the-throat response, take a moment â" breathe â" and let me reassure you that itâs not you, itâs whatâs happened to you over the years. You canât quite put your finger on it, but somehow you just donât feel like youâre thriving or truly participating in your own life.

This is the result of a build-up of lifeâs scrapes, papercuts and bruises that have left you feeling simply ânot okâ. Emotional illiteracy, microaggressions, challenging familial relationships, toxic positivity and gaslighting are some examples of what I call âTiny Tâ trauma â" the impact of which often leads to problems such as high-functioning anxiety, languishing, perfectionism, comfort eating and sleep disturbance, to name but a few.

We have been fooled into believing that âTiny Tâ trauma doesnât matter. There always seem to be huge, intractable problems in the world, so we tend to overlook those small, everyday injuries that drill down to your core. This leaves us with an undercurrent of constant melancholy and niggling pinpricks of anxiety, all wrapped up in the film of other peopleâs Insta-perfect lives.

But life doesnât have to be experienced in this suffocating way; we owe it to ourselves to develop Awareness, Acceptance, and take Action on our Tiny T trauma, no matter how âsmallâ, and to start living every day as we deserve.â