{"id":152,"date":"2025-10-23T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:50:56","slug":"the-three-characteristics-of-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"The Three Characteristics of Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently watched this short by Aimie Apigian and she talked about the three characteristics in her definition of trauma. Trauma is these three things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overwhelming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unbelievable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unbearable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She talks about how this makes it hard to process trauma, and that resonates with me because if it&#8217;s unbelievable, then that&#8217;s one layer, if it&#8217;s unbearable, that&#8217;s another layer, and if it&#8217;s overwhelming, it&#8217;s not something that makes sense to move towards in order to process it and heal it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Processing Stored Trauma: Step\u2011by\u2011Step Somatic Guide | Dr. Aimie Apigian\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dh7c0J9PUbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched this short by Aimie Apigian and she talked about the three characteristics in her definition of trauma. Trauma is these three things: She talks about how this makes it hard to process trauma, and that resonates with me because if it&#8217;s unbelievable, then that&#8217;s one layer, if it&#8217;s unbearable, that&#8217;s another layer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-survival-skills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}