
While mindfulness can help with trauma recovery, the practice of meditation can create particular challenges for trauma survivors. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing in meditation, but it’s not a simple thing, either. This means that anywhere people are practicing mindfulness, someone is likely to be struggling with trauma. From online meditation programs to grade-school classrooms, people are practicing mindfulness in a variety of ways.

Mindfulness is also increasingly popular. Research tells us that 90% of us will live through a traumatic event, and some will develop debilitating symptoms in its aftermath. I’m an educator, researcher, and trauma professional who created Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM)-a framework that empowers you to teach mindfulness in a safe, effective, trauma-informed way.
