“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Exposure to trauma is a relatively common human experience. One study of motor vehicle accident survivors arrived at a conservative estimate that auto accident-related post-traumatic stress disorder may affect 2.5 to 7 million people in the United States, reflecting a significant public health problem. In looking at the general population, a large survey of four U.S. cities found the lifetime prevalence rate of PTSD to be 7.4 percent …