A man who had been diagnosed as a child with attention deficit disorder and prescribed various drugs, including Ritalin, came to me because he had a lot of pressure in his head and difficulty focusing. When I arrived, he also had a running cold. Due to privacy concerns, I won't go into detail, but it was a very long, very intense session involving a lot of frozen trauma from his childhood.

At the end of two and a half hours, he stood up, blinked, and looked totally surprised. Not only had the head cold totally cleared up, but, as he said, "I don't think I've ever felt so present before. I'm here. I mean here, here." And he laughed.

The next time I saw him, he held steady eye contact, and we sat and chatted without him fidgeting as before. In other words, he was "present".

Clearing past trauma is incredibly impactful. It can change your life.