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Episode 86 - Trauma Series: What is trauma?

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*****Trigger Warning - Trauma*******

Everybody goes through trauma at some point in their lives. Trauma affects us differently depending on our experience of it. In this episode we go through what trauma is, the 6 different types of trauma, the importance of acknowledging that we have all experienced trauma (no matter how big or small) and why we need to take responsibility for our own healing.

In this episode, we cover…

  • How everybody is affected by trauma
  • How things can happen that we do not class as traumatic and we therefore do not heal from these events 
  • What trauma is
  • How we tend to discredit certain things that are traumatic to us as “part of life’ and how this prevents us from healing from these events and consequently come back as triggers 
  • How slight traumas still impact us even though these are the simplest to heal from
  • Why slight traumas compound when we ignore the impact they have on us
  • How some triggers may be unhealed traumas that we haven’t healed or identified
  • How there are 6 different types of trauma, divided into 2 groups of three, depending on how frequently the trauma happens and how severe it is. 
  • Claire and Serena give examples for each
  • 1. Slight and Momentary Trauma - a low level trauma that happens momentarily and how some triggers may be slight traumas that we haven’t healed
  • 2. Slight and Significant Trauma - a higher level of trauma that also happens momentarily 
  • 3. Severe and Momentary Trauma - a momentary trauma you were personally involved in that was severe in nature (but didn’t cause sustained issues)
  • 4. Slight and Sustained Trauma - a slight trauma that happens over an extended period of time. The longer the time, the more severe the impact to our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
  • 5. Significant and Sustained Trauma - a more significant trauma sustained over a period of time
  • 6. Severe and Sustained Trauma - a severe trauma that continues over a period of time 
  • Why people in proximity can still sustain trauma, even if they are not directly involved
  • Reminder that your trauma is valid, no matter how big or small
  • How adults capable of meeting their own needs, need to be responsible for healing their own traumas
  • How is it always ok to ask for help and support and look for different resources to get over a trauma if we find it hard to do it alone
  • How our responsibility to heal our own trauma is not only for our benefit, but also for those around us as our behavior as a reaction to having sustained trauma may impact others
  • Why it it important to acknowledge and identify when we have suffered trauma
  • How dismissing and invalidating trauma prevents us from healing from it and how we then carry it forward affecting us and others around us

    • Episode references:

    Episode 51 - How to increase your resilience

    Episode 40 - Let's absolutely lose the absolutes (although not ALWAYS absolutely...)

    Episode 72 - Burning the candle at both ends series - Same shit, different day

    Other references:

    https://time.com/4837536/do-women-really-talk-more/

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