´The world as we knew is wide broken´. Trauma is more than a personal experience, but it extends to the political and social levels. Actually, there are so many types and times of the trauma, and healing is not always coming in hand. Healing from trauma may not be possible, but writing about it, using it as a literary variation is possible. It may not heal, writing about trauma, but it can break the chain of silence covering trauma(s) and traumatic experiences in general.
Writing into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth and Language, available as a one-hour audio on Scribd narrated by the author herself, Roxane Gay, is a pertinent writing approach to our times. It is so easy to hide trauma in plain sight. Easy, because actually no one will really care about your story if you don´t mind to tell it yourself. You can live with someone a full life without sharing anything about your trauma, without forgetting it any single moment of your life. Thus, the burden is harder and poisonous for your soul and for those breathing the same air with you as well.
Even you cannot heal the trauma, talking about it, making the right point about it, can help to move forward. Indeed, the trauma may stay with you, but you acknowledge it and you can get along with it, as part of your life story, a story that you can tell through written words.
I only wish one day will be able to take part to one of Gay´s workshops on trauma at Yale´s.
Rating: 4 stars
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