There is a growing consciousness around trauma and it’s far-reaching effects. It’s a subject that has been under the radar for many years but is now being recognised and spoken about much more.

We’ve been speaking about it for close to a decade now with our clients and decided that would share our simple perspective on this complex subject and hopefully give you a different way to view it.

Ever since we started doing our trauma work, we were always looking for a simple, easy way to explain what is going on inside the nervous system. We found that because trauma is invisible, it’s also hard for people to visualise and understand how it works, which makes it harder for them to let go of it and heal. So what we were looking for, was an easy to visualise, tangible analogy that people could easily understand.

Then, when I was in Cyprus working on a retreat, I got to work with a  local person whose first language wasn’t English. I wanted him to fully understand the process I was taking him through, so I came up with the splinter as a simple analogy.

That was 6 years ago, and now splinters are a common conversation around our work.