Trauma is defined as anything that pushes coping skills to and beyond their limits, resulting in feelings that alter brain function and perception.

“yeah trauma is anything that pushes our coping skills to and beyond their limits and then results in a set of feelings inside that could be acute terror or it could be for example a chronic sense of denigration right but it creates these feelings inside that then change the the the functioning of our brain the communication within our brain among the various parts right in a way that that shifts the lens through which we see ourselves and the world around us”