Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it. —Peter A. Levine —Bill Bowerman —T.S. Eliot 1 The newspaper stories I read in 2004 about the girl hinted that she should have been immune to violence. Dru Sjodin (pronounced “shuh-deen”), was exceptionally pretty, a sorority girl, and homecoming queen. A student, she had lived in Grand Forks, the small college town w...