Developmental Trauma is a catch-all phrase that relates to anything that interrupts the natural process of growth and development. For example, inherited trauma which can flow through several generations down to you, trauma or disconnect around conception, repeated fear of threat (imagined or real), a fast birth or a c-section that is planned without labor, birth trauma, unavailable or disconnected at birth to birth mother, medical interventions, abuse or neglect, lack of opportunity, anxious or disorganized parenting, adoption or abandonment, as well as community trauma and many more possibilities.