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“True transformation begins when we choose to face our fears, embrace our strengths, and take the first step toward the life we truly want.”
Christopher Denzler, MA, LMHC, LPC.
Clearing the Panic Closet: Reclaiming Calm After Trauma
Cleaning out a crowded, dusty closet is messy and unsettling, but it can also be clarifying and freeing. Trauma reactions are like a closet stuffed with decades of things you grabbed in an emergency—some useful, most not—and the work of recovery is the careful process of sorting, testing, and deciding what stays, what gets fixed, and what must go.
Rewriting the Past to Free Your Future
Trauma can change how you see yourself, how you remember events, and how you tell the story of your life. The relationship between traumatic experience, self-perception, and narrative memory determines whether past pain continues to control your choices or becomes fuel for learning and resilience. When you understand how trauma reshapes memory and identity, you can intentionally re-author those memories into healthier narratives that restore agency, meaning, and hope.