It's okay if something affects you even when it doesn't affect someone else...

Ck Thoughtful reflections
It’s okay if something affects you even when it doesn’t affect someone else.
If I asked four people to draw a tree, every picture would look different. One might draw a palm tree. Another an oak. Someone else a willow. Someone might draw an entire forest.
They were all given the same word, but every brain interpreted it differently.
We experience the world through our own history, nervous system, memories, support systems, and the meaning we make of things.
Sometimes in therapy we hear the classic:
“I don’t know why I’m here… my friend went through the exact same thing and they’re fine.”
But the reality is that two people can go through the same event and experience it completely differently. Why? Because our brains and nervous systems interpret and store experiences based on our past, our resilience at that moment, the support around us, and what the experience meant to us personally.
So if something affected you and others seemed “fine,” that doesn’t make your feelings wrong. It just means you’re different humans with different inner worlds.
#psychotherapy #compassionate therapy #traumainformedpractice.