The statistics on abuse and violence in the United States are overwhelmingly a sign that communities and persons are distressed and leading interrupted lives. Long-term consequences and the impact on healthcare resources is not insignificant. Childhood maltreatment is associated with poor healthcare outcomes in adults, as reported in The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study. Bessel van der Kolk, has also described complex trauma as “the experience of multiple, chronic and prolonged, developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an interpersonal nature...and early life onset”. Persons who suffer traumatic childhood events represent a uniquely vulnerable health population. Often, patients do not recognize the impact of trauma on their own lives. These persons thirst for life—to be welcomed by others, to be seen, to be heard, to be restored to their bodily integrity—to be self-possessed, and secure in their self-referential and relational encounters. The divine image in the human person, and the unity of the communion of persons, is especially harmed in traumatic bonding. The trauma contaminates the “human wells” and the bonds of human connection, as St. John Paul II described in his letter to the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. In seeking to courageously heal the “‘human wells’ that life has mistreated”, clinicians and others are challenged to bring forth the hidden springs of healing, of abundant life within their patients, in the perennial charism of hospitality.