Judith, I experienced this also and found that expressive/therapeutic writing helped me. You begin with mind dumping like mind mapping on a page then look at what you have written and allow your innermost person to have a voice. Do not try to make yourself write it will come. Then when you read what your inner voice wrote take time to process it. I found that when words are put to trauma it gives closure to it.
I did a basic youtube on my experience of this kind of writing and have some of my beginning writing samples on the power point presentation. You can click on the link below. BTW my ACEs score is a nine.