The definition of international trauma expert Gabor Maté naturally takes center stage here; he describes it as:
“Trauma is not what happens to you, it is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.”
On Traumanet I found additional substantiation and elements to complete the sketch. And the Instagram post by 365dagensuccesvol—where they offered five responses to the quote “This is why you sometimes feel so locked up inside yourself”—gave me the “key” to weave in the element of the “empty dark keyhole.”