There's a story a lot of people tell themselves about trauma. It goes something like this: Trauma is for people who have been through something really serious. A war. An assault. A terrible accident. What happened to me wasn't that bad. Other people have it so much worse. I don't have the right to call it trauma. If any version of that story lives in your head, I want to gently challenge it today. Because one of the most common — and most limiting — misconceptions about traum