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Traumatic situations can have significant and long-term impact on our body and mind. Be it in individuals or societies, moments of trauma lead to the questioning of deep-ingrained values and eventually to deconstructing and denying them (Schaub, 2019). Trauma is inter-generational, meaning that even three generations later it can still affect the family/community members and manifest itself as for example: anxiety disorders or eating disorders.Not only victims of war can develop PTSD. In fact, most of the cases of PTSD nowadays are caused by traumatic experience of domnestic abuse, natural catastropes,wintessing violence, losing a loved one, divorce, legal battles or financial troubles (Onderko, n.d.)

Trauma is stored in our bodies and can show up as pain, extreme emotions and distorted thoughts. Health issues that may stem from trauma are for example head aches, insomnia, anorexia, pelvic pain and auto-immune disorders (Sheppard, 2019). With our bodies carying trauma we still have to compete, produce and prove to be worthy as part of capitalism. This leads to a daily struggle.

This 3D-model is our visualization of trauma in Martyna's and Carlinda's bodies. We invite others to make their own vizualization using colors, forms, text and so on.

To help you, we made a set of questions, sets of body sensations, sets of thoughts which can be used to determine where and how your trauma shows up.

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sensations that you may feel in your body

thoughts that you may have

questions to ask yourself

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Adi Liraz, EXDRESS: BODY, TRAUMA, EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION, Curated by: Sanija Kulenovic and Adi Liraz, May 2015 at the Meinblau Projektraum as part of the annually Month of Performance Art Berlin, the Anthology http://adi-liraz.squarespace.com/exdress-body-trauma-exclusion-inclusion

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https://integratedlistening.com/what-is-trauma/

Schaub, Danielle. "Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations". Brill/Rodopi, 2019

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