Trauma
Post-Trauma Identity Shift Questionnaire
Survivor struggles to articulate how trauma has changed their sense of self and their place in the world, leading to confusion and disconnection.
Trauma reorganizes identity. Survivors often emerge with a different set of capacities, fears, values, and beliefs than they had before. Naming these shifts explicitly is the first step toward integrating them into a coherent sense of self rather than fragmenting around them.
This questionnaire creates language for the internal shifts that trauma has produced.
Post-Trauma Identity Shift Questionnaire
Before the trauma, I believed: After the trauma, I believe:
Before, I was a person who: After, I am a person who:
I have lost the ability to: I have developed the ability to:
Before, I trusted: After, I trust:
Before, I could tolerate: After, I cannot tolerate:
I am angry at: I am grateful for:
Before, my world looked like: After, my world looks like:
Before, I wanted to become: After, I want to become:
Read what you have written. You are not the same person. This is not good or bad. It is fact. Trauma changes you. The work is to build a coherent self that includes both who you were and who you are now. You do not have to like this version. You have to inhabit it.
Which shift surprises you the most? Which one causes you the most resistance? We will start there.
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