What’s the Difference Between Hurt and Trauma? (Part I)

In divorcing situations, some pain may be inevitable, but trauma is preventable! In a divorce, parents lose their tempers, over-share information, pick up the pieces from the damage of the other parent’s lost temper or over-sharing, and so on. Children are exposed to much from which, under preferrable circumstances, they would otherwise have been shielded.

This excellent article by Rachel Alexander addresses what can be done to prevent hurt from becoming trauma — who and how we can be in order to stand between the aftermath of upset and the hardening of injury into long-term damage.