Riding in cars with boys – how exposure therapy resolved my trauma

Riding in cars with boys – how exposure therapy resolved my trauma

In October 2023, I began writing about two specific trauma experiences arising from my experiences the previous August – police interactions and riding in cars. Since then I’ve been working to process both. This post is about the car trauma. How I realized I had car trauma Back then I wrote “Then we layer in a form of exposure therapy. I can’t ride in the backseat of any car and I can’t ride with strangers. So no ride shares for me. No bus for m…