Sexual Trauma is from the felt understanding of my own life experiences and the witnessing of others over 22 years, not sexual abuse.
Both as a known experience are vastly different.
Sexual abuse, is when someone is forcing upon us a non consensual violating act.
Sexual Trauma as I have grown through my life has felt completely different.
Sexual trauma is anything that is limiting our sexual self from being fully online and fully alive.
Life brings to us challenges to choose to learn and grow from or shrink small into. When we have shrunk small into our grief, our loss, our pain, our anxiety, our fear … our sexual self becomes unavailable.
We can often focus on our sex life as the difficulty, as it presents to us symptoms of lack of libido, lack of sexual desire, and various physical symptoms depending upon our gender.