When someone you care about is healing from trauma, your instinct is to fix it, to say the right thing, to make the pain stop.

Most people associate trauma with flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks. Those responses are real, but they are also the ones that get recognized. The trauma

Teens do not always have the language to tell you something is wrong. Instead, they show it through behavior changes, mood swings that seem disproportionate,

Not every traumatic experience happens outside a hospital. A frightening diagnosis, a surgical complication, a prolonged ICU stay, or a dismissive interaction with a provider