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Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It Act Me. I'm excited about today's episode.

It is going to be a full solo episode, which we haven't done in quite a while, but

you had reached out on Instagram and we had been talking a little bit about trauma,

specifically relationship trauma. And I think it'd be a really good idea if I talk about

my experience with relationship trauma. If I bring in a therapist for a few minutes to

give us the real rundown on trauma and we can kind of hear that perspective, but also hear

my perspective, which I haven't really talked about my specific relationship trauma.

And there are tons of reasons for that, mostly because when we experience trauma, we don't

think of it really as trauma because there's types of trauma, right? So in therapy, they call it

small T trauma and large T trauma. And small T trauma could include conflicts,

like interpersonal conflicts, infidelity, divorce, having to relocate, legal trouble,

financial trouble, and relationship trouble, which is I guess interpersonal conflict. And then

large T trauma is more like going through a natural disaster. I got for a bit a terrorist attack,

a sexual assault, like a mugging, that kind of thing, more physical and obvious trauma. But

regardless, whether it's small T trauma or large T trauma, it usually does have a big impact on

your life. And if this is something that you've experienced, I just want you to know that there

are places that you can get help. There's trauma-focused therapy. And I encourage everyone who feels

like they could use that help to seek it out. I'm just going to talk about my own experience. And

I also had asked you guys to write in some of your experiences. And so I'm going to read some of

your responses now. And then I'll talk a little bit about what I've gone through in my life.

There's a lot of responses so bear with me here. Someone said, my first ever boyfriend dumped

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