YOUR TRAUMA MATTERS
It was an unexpectedly beautiful interview with Chanel Miller discussing her memoir, Know My Name: "Know My Name
(2019) chronicles Chanel Miller's journey after experiencing sexual
assault. Miller was assaulted on Stanford University's campus in 2015
and became publicly known as "Emily Doe" during her assailant's trial" (uw.pressbooks.pub).
Chanel's sexual assault story is different than mine, however I am profoundly struck by the similarities between how it connects to the car accident I had when I was 19 years old.
Let me explain:
I too was sexually assaulted in the U.S. a few months before my car accident in Windsor.
Chanel and I both had been drinking prior to what landed us in the hospital.
We both woke up in a hospital not remembering how we got there or what had happened.
We both processed our traumas through writing; Chanel in a book, me in a blog.
Her trauma mattered.
My trauma mattered.
My message to people is that it is never too late to process trauma. It doesn't matter if you were (are) middle-aged, old, or somewhere in-between. Your trauma matters.
It is likely your spiritual path.
There is still time to walk it.
Cb
Amen
