I used to be a voracious reader. A book-a-week kind of reader. Of course when I became a mother, I had less time to read but I still read books when time allowed. I was able to read books and maintain that focus. When I had my son, we went through multiple traumas over the course of the week leading up to and including his birth. Mental and physical traumas took a toll and I had difficulty being able to focus enough to really get into a book after that. When I endured a separate and horrible trauma at the hands of my abusive former husband years later, that really sealed the deal. I could barely focus to read at all. That can be a trauma response. It wasn’t until years later that I realized this. I needed help overcoming reading difficulties from trauma.