What Is Trauma? Big T and Small t Trauma and the Formation of Personality

Listen, Then Practice

Big T, Small t, and the Meanings We Form

Sue Beer explores how overwhelming events and repeated smaller experiences can both shape what the nervous system expects—and how those experiences can become woven into personality, coping, and belonging.

Listen for what helps you recognize your own experience without comparing it to anyone else’s. You do not have to prove that something was dramatic enough before offering it care.