Rewriting Old Trauma Patterns with Micro-Proof

The Friday Edition | No. 52

Rewriting Old Trauma Patterns with Micro-Proof

Trauma has a way of keeping us tethered to the past, looping old patterns through our lives when we least expect or want them to. They can disrupt our jobs, relationships, and sense of stability, reinforcing the very fears and beliefs we desperately wish to escape. Each time we find ourselves back in the same pain, it feels like proof: See? Nothing ever changes. This is just how life is. The weight of these moments makes it seem as though freedom from the past will never come, as though we are doomed to relive the same heartbreaks, betrayals, and losses forever.

We find ourselves wondering how many times can a person lose before they break? How many times can you rebuild, only to have it all come crashing down? How many times can you dare to hope, only to be beaten back into the cold reality that safety, love, and stability never seem to last?

It feels like life is a cruel joke. As if the world has some contract to keep you suffering. Like all the work you’ve done – the healing, the therapy, the awareness – doesn’t mean a damn thing when the same old nightmares play out in broad daylight.

Because trauma-trained brains dismiss the good as coincidence and fixate on the bad as proof.

And honestly? Why wouldn’t they?