This text outlines a practical guide for nurses and healthcare providers to provide care for individuals with varying traumatic histories with an informed perspective. Consideration of trauma as an acute experience to one that can develop into a post-traumatic stress disorder are explored. Additionally, the biological, behavioral, historical and cumulative basis of trauma are discussed as well as the family’s role in generational trauma.  Trauma presents a complex multilayered experience that requires understanding to provide appropriate care. Trauma if often viewed as a physical experience with minimal consideration of the emotional and mental health aspects of these experiences. The perspective of unseen emotional scars is given descriptive graphic to allow the scars to be visualized and treated.