How Deep Is the Wound‪?‬

What if the pain you’re calling “trauma” is really your mind’s invitation to grow?
In How Deep Is the Wound? psychotherapist and neuroscience writer Antonieta Contreras turns today’s trauma-saturated conversation on its head. With equal parts science and story, she shows why not every hurt is a life-shattering injury—and how confusing ordinary adaptation with true survival panic keeps us stuck, anxious, and chronically exhausted.
Moving from playground betrayals to ICU nightmares, each chapter asks a disarming question—Is this a bruise, a cut, or a break?—then teaches you to read the body-brain clues that reveal the wound’s actual depth.
Packed with case vignettes, myth-busting graphics, and “observing-self” exercises you can try in five minutes, How Deep Is the Wound? replaces hopeless labels with practical tools and a radical reminder: your mind is wired to mend.
Turn the page to find out which hurts need urgent tending, which will fade with time—and which might just become the strongest part of you.