The topic of trauma has hit home for me and our DM community. Stress, anxiety, and maternal mental health issues all have their roots in unresolved trauma. Trauma is simply a nervous system frozen in a state of danger, and it’s not tied to a specific event, but in how that event is encoded in your body. Let’s dive deeper!

Show Highlights:

• Why it’s easy to minimize trauma, which has nothing to do with what you went through; it’s a nervous system frozen in a state of danger (1:12)
• The crux of the trauma problem: When the nervous system is stuck, we cannot make conscious choices until it’s unfrozen (7:50)
• Three stages of how we function when an event has been encoded as trauma: (12:15)
• • Survival
  • Coping
  • Thriving
• Your body can’t heal if it doesn’t feel safe, which is the key to reclaiming life and health (19:10)
• We have to make changes in order to unfreeze our nervous system (25:54)
• You deserve healing! ((30:50)
• Questions from event participants about therapist training, Healing Hearts membership, coping and trying again, and more (32:14)

Resources:

5 Myths About Trauma http://bit.ly/5traumamyths 

Modern Approach to Grief & Trauma Release Free Webinar http://bit.ly/modappweb

Join us in Healing Hearts http://bit.ly/healheartblog