Sex Therapy After Trauma – Making Sense of the Trauma
Suffering from trauma can leave you struggling with upsetting emotions, memories, and anxiety that won’t go away. It can also leave you feeling numb, helpless, hopeless, disconnected, and unable to trust others and your body’s natural responses to sensations. Sexual trauma therapy can help with these issues.
Freezing is a State of Hyper-arousal and Fear.
When a traumatic event occurs, it can shatter one’s sense of security, making you feel helpless in a dangerous world. And in an effort to feel safer, many individuals experience a disconnection with parts of the self.
Trauma is disruptive to the body’s natural equilibrium and holistic state.
In essence, leaving you in an endless cycle of being slightly “turned-on” to sensation, so when you are engaging in desire and arousal, your body is quickly overwhelmed leading it to shut-down or not feel pleasure at all. Sex therapy after trauma is important to break this cycle.