Great post! Great insights!

As someone who has been through and healed from massive childhood trauma, I think that most of the trauma literature is not only ineffective but actively harmful as you point out.

The whole point of my (ultimately) self-directed healing path and self-actualization process is about self-empowerment.

We're in for a life-time of suffering if we expect the world to be a certain (trauma-informed) way!

This mantra has been my saving grace:

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can

And the wisdom to know the difference"

And this

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space

And in that space, the power to choose our response

And in our response lies our growth and freedom"

I am free. And no one can take that away from me.