15/06/2026
This powerful excerpt from the late Virginia Guiffre's 'Nobody's Girl' beautifully captures the often unseen scars that trauma can leave behind. Recovery is possible but understanding the depth of these wounds and the ways they may affect our lives is often an important first step on the healing journey ❤️🩹
'Trauma is such a cunning enemy. Those of us who've survived its terrors often marvel at how quickly it can recede, at least at first. Once you get to safety, your visible wounds - your cuts, your bruises - heal and fade. Your psyche too, revives, like a drowning man who, pulled from the depths, somehow spits up dark water and opens his eyes. But recovering victims like me know too well how trauma lurks in the shadows, always there. No matter how many years go by, or how many therapists you see, it can rise, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere. A song on the radio may summon it. Or the scent of a stranger's cologne.....'
