Join us in creating a trauma rock
Why a trauma rock, the pressing and digging into stone is therapeutic for many reasons sensory and symbolically your digging deep.
The Stone is tough and you become that too, holding in the trauma makes for rough surfaces and cracks, it's heavy enough to be a burden but you still carry the trauma.
As you hold the rock and create you will feel the weight of it and we can talk about how similar it really is to your own trauma or complex trauma, how this digging and shaping of the stone is the same as reshaping the trauma and the end result is a reminder of what is now outside your mind and body as you heal.
The image you create can be symbolic of you, your journey, the trauma or an outcome.
For my trauma rock I wanted it to be all encompassing a symbol of working with many perspectives of trauma so a cracked rough rock, with the faint carved female shape face down, she could have depression, anger, grief, she could be injured, hurt emotionally, she may even be dead, the trauma is real and natural so also has a side not seen by the world, cracked, broken, blended into a hard surface too well...but the part that's really hard to see the rock is a heart shape and the female represents the breaking heart, things people don't realize cause trauma too.