Trauma & Healing Taylor Kernion Trauma & Healing Taylor Kernion

Trauma vs. Stress Response: What is the difference?

Stress and trauma can feel the same: a racing heart, a tightening chest, a knot in your stomach. But they come from very different places. Stress is your body gearing up to meet a challenge. Trauma is your nervous system reacting to danger, even when you’re safe. While stress passes, trauma often lingers, shaping how you move, feel, and relate long after the moment has passed.

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Trauma & Healing Taylor Kernion Trauma & Healing Taylor Kernion

The Hidden Ways Trauma Shows Up in Everyday Life

Trauma doesn’t always announce itself in dramatic moments. Sometimes it lives in slowing traffic, a startled foot on the brake, or the muscle memory of fear long after danger has passed. It shows up in reflexes, small patterns, and everyday reactions our body still carries. Until we learn to recognize them, feel them, and gently rewrite our nervous system’s story.

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Motherhood Taylor Kernion Motherhood Taylor Kernion

The Silent Seasons of Motherhood

Motherhood isn’t always loud or visible. Some of its seasons live in the quiet: in early morning stillness, weary shifts as the world sleeps, in the small invisible spaces where identity changes without fanfare. Healing through those silent seasons means honoring every unspoken breath, every tender pause, every subtle surrender.

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