This story is about a 3 year old girl and her Mom whose lives were changed in when they witnessed a double shooting at a taxi rank.
For 30 years, the trauma suffered by Emily, who later became an alcoholic and 3 year old Angela whose innocence was shattered has haunted me.
Angela was born in 1989 a few years before the official end of apartheid in South Africa and lived with my family.
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry
We all experience trauma during our lives and it is important that we don’t compare our trauma with someone else’s experience.
It is not a competition.
Anything that causes you fear, pain, discomfort, a sense of loss, feeling unsupported, powerless or humiliated can trigger a traumatic event. Sometimes we can work through it and move on.
However, as children, if our childhood trauma is not acknowledged by adults who care for us and we are not given the correct counselling, we bury it deep within us.
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry