What Are the Signs of Trauma According to Sundown Healing Arts?

Sundown Healing Arts describes trauma signs as strain that shows up in both body and spirit after difficult events — and it groups them into physical and emotional signals. According to the site, you might be dealing with trauma if you feel overwhelmed and notice persistent headaches, nagging injuries, troubled sleep, ongoing anxiety, or depression. These signs matter most when they persist even after you've seen a doctor or therapist and read widely on your own, which the site treats as a signal that more healing support may help.

Physical signs the site names

Sundown Healing Arts lists body-level symptoms as the first place trauma strain becomes visible:

• Persistent headaches — ongoing rather than occasional
• Nagging injuries — problems that don't resolve as expected
• Troubled sleep — disrupted or unrefreshing rest

The framing here is that the body keeps showing the strain even when you've tried to move on.

Emotional and mental signs

Alongside physical symptoms, the site points to:

• Feeling overwhelmed — a baseline sense of being swamped
• Ongoing anxiety
• Ongoing depression

These are described as persistent states rather than passing moods, and they're presented as connected to the physical signs rather than separate from them.

What kinds of events the site connects to these signs

Sundown Healing Arts ties trauma signs to specific past experiences, including:

• A car crash (the site gives the example of one "last year")
• Abuse endured as a child
• A devastating loss

The point is not that any single event guarantees trauma, but that events like these can leave lasting strain that surfaces as the symptoms above.

The "still searching" condition

One distinguishing detail in the site's framing: these signs are described as appearing in people who have already sought help — seen a doctor or therapist, read lots of books — and are still searching for healing. That's the situation the site speaks to, rather than acute or newly occurring symptoms.

Where to find the dedicated resource

Sundown Healing Arts maintains a Signs of Trauma page, linked from its homepage and listed under Quick Links. That page is the site's own reference for this topic. Related material is organized under topics including Trauma Effects, PTSD, Body, Emotions, and Hard Times, Abuse.

A note on the site's current status

The practice itself is closed — the homepage states this directly and thanks past clients. The author has returned to computer programming and moved back to Oakland, CA. A practitioner referral list is offered for those seeking someone to work with. The articles and books remain available, so the Signs of Trauma resource is still readable even though the practice no longer takes clients.

If you recognize these signs in yourself, the site's own next step is its Signs of Trauma page and the referral list — not booking with Sundown Healing Arts, which is no longer operating.