When safety is lost, survival takes over.
We adapt by becoming invisible, controlled, strong on the outside while turmoil brews within. These adaptations help us endure, but they come at a cost: tension in the body, self-blame, shame, and the persistent feeling of never being truly safe, even when the danger is long gone.

In Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive, clinical psychologist Mari Kjølseth Bræin explores how attachment wounds and trauma shape the brain, body and nervous system and how we can begin to heal. With warmth and clarity, she shows how early experiences of fear, neglect, or broken bonds continue to echo through adult life, influencing our choices, our relationships, and the way we see ourselves.

This is a book about how we survive and how, slowly, we can learn to live again.