What happens when you start healing from trauma may feel like a foreign land. For anyone navigating Complex PTSD (CPTSD), survival often requires building an identity around hypervigilance, endurance, and protection. Trauma becomes the lens through which the world is viewed, and the story of "what happened" easily masquerades as the self. Recently, a client asked a profound question that many in somatic therapy and trauma recovery eventually face: “Who am I if I am not my tra