Over the past thirty years, LEGO has been used as a therapeutic tool for both children and adults.
It seems that many people benefit from this kind of intervention, but how exactly does LEGO help adults heal from trauma?.
Trauma is an event or series of events which is distressing and overwhelms our nervous systems ability to cope.
People with trauma will use grounding techniques to help them when something triggers them.
Notably, the majority of these involve a person trying to reconnect with the present moment, rather than something traumatic from the past.
Whilst other creative activities tick one or two of these boxes, it seems LEGO is on another level.
However, often when individuals have experienced trauma at a young age, they miss out on ‘normal’ things such as play. »
