Today’s guest, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, has done more than her fair share to help heal trauma in the world including her own. She’s the creator of mindfulness based the mind fitness training program (MFIT). She’s also professor of security studies at Georgetown University, US Army Veteran, and author of Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma.

We discuss what trauma is, how it distorts people’s lives and how to heal it. We have some interesting explorations about how organizations exploit traumatized people, why so many people in positions of authority are themselves traumatized and the relationship between trauma experiences and overachievement. We had a wide-ranging, engaging conversation that I think you will find very interesting.

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