ABSTRACT
The physical ailments and illnesses that result from unresolved trauma are anything but psychosomatic. Trauma-informed physical care connects the dots between unresolved trauma and physical illness rather than belittling or discounting an ailment as "merely" psychosomatic. The British National Health Service puts it this way: Trauma is a term used to describe single or multiple distressing events that may have long lasting and harmful effects on a person's physical and/or emotional well-being. Trauma and stress produce physical consequences, many of which are clusters of ailments with no accurate name. Often clients spend their whole adult lives with mysterious, disabling physical complaints that no pills or treatments seem able to cure. In some of these cases, it may be that the wounded victim needs non-medical healing that takes into account the trauma that he or she experienced and that focuses on the emotional and the psychological as well as the physical.
