You Don’t Have to Remember Your Trauma to Heal—Here’s Why

TL;DR Summary

• You don’t need to remember every detail of your trauma for healing to happen.

• Some healing modalities work without explicit memory, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, somatic therapies, and psychedelic-assisted therapies.

• Randomly remembering trauma without support can re-traumatize you instead of heal you.

• The brain’s memory syste…