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How we can Heal Trauma to Create a New Path Forward with Dr. Christine Gibson
What impact is trauma having on your life? In this conversation with Dr. Christine Gibson (christinegibson.net) about this critically important topic, we explore the role trauma plays in our lives, and how we begin to heal. Christine is on TikTok as @tiktoktraumadoc, and her book Modern Trauma Toolkit (moderntrauma.com) is coming out in May, 2023.
Don't forget to follow the podcast wherever you listen, and connect with me at my website melaniewelch.ca, or on Instagram @melaniewelchmd. On my website I have a link to a very brief survey about your needs, click on "3 quick questions. " I will enter your name in a draw for a Starbucks gift card for completing the survey.
Thanks so much for listening.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. How can you foster a more generalist approach to your life? How can you leverage your different interests and skillsets?
2. Traumatic experiences in childhood increase the risk of many mental health and physical conditions. Trauma can be healed.
3. We can't provide care for others if we aren't well ourselves.
4. There's a balance between true connection with others and maintaining our own psychological safety.
5. Trauma is much more prevalent than we have known, and the events and circumstances that cause trauma are unique to each individual.
6. For us to show up the way we want, the first step is balancing our own nervous system.
7. Attunement matters to our relationships and we can't be attuned until we are regulated ourselves in our own ventral vagal system.
8. As caregivers, it is key for us to recognize and acknowledge our own traumas and to do the work of healing.
9. The three stages of trauma therapy include:
1. Safety and grounding. Noticing our own nervous system. 2. Shifting away from stress responses and 3. Resourcing.
The programs that are set up to help us manage our wellness are often not taking us past the first stage.
10. Being trauma informed starts with building our own toolkit around remodeling and rewiring our nervous system.
11. The opposite of trauma is not being happy all the time. The opposite of trauma is having a flexible menu of human experiences available to us, and more options for paths forward.
Resources discussed in this episode:
moderntrauma.com
https://forward-facing.com/about-j-eric-gentry-phd/
Balint groups: https://www.cfp.ca/content/58/3/245
Deb Dana: https://www.rhythmofregulation.com/
https://www.danpink.com/books/whole-new-mind/
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By Melanie WelchWhat impact is trauma having on your life? In this conversation with Dr. Christine Gibson (christinegibson.net) about this critically important topic, we explore the role trauma plays in our lives, and how we begin to heal. Christine is on TikTok as @tiktoktraumadoc, and her book Modern Trauma Toolkit (moderntrauma.com) is coming out in May, 2023.
Don't forget to follow the podcast wherever you listen, and connect with me at my website melaniewelch.ca, or on Instagram @melaniewelchmd. On my website I have a link to a very brief survey about your needs, click on "3 quick questions. " I will enter your name in a draw for a Starbucks gift card for completing the survey.
Thanks so much for listening.
Key takeaways from this episode:
1. How can you foster a more generalist approach to your life? How can you leverage your different interests and skillsets?
2. Traumatic experiences in childhood increase the risk of many mental health and physical conditions. Trauma can be healed.
3. We can't provide care for others if we aren't well ourselves.
4. There's a balance between true connection with others and maintaining our own psychological safety.
5. Trauma is much more prevalent than we have known, and the events and circumstances that cause trauma are unique to each individual.
6. For us to show up the way we want, the first step is balancing our own nervous system.
7. Attunement matters to our relationships and we can't be attuned until we are regulated ourselves in our own ventral vagal system.
8. As caregivers, it is key for us to recognize and acknowledge our own traumas and to do the work of healing.
9. The three stages of trauma therapy include:
1. Safety and grounding. Noticing our own nervous system. 2. Shifting away from stress responses and 3. Resourcing.
The programs that are set up to help us manage our wellness are often not taking us past the first stage.
10. Being trauma informed starts with building our own toolkit around remodeling and rewiring our nervous system.
11. The opposite of trauma is not being happy all the time. The opposite of trauma is having a flexible menu of human experiences available to us, and more options for paths forward.
Resources discussed in this episode:
moderntrauma.com
https://forward-facing.com/about-j-eric-gentry-phd/
Balint groups: https://www.cfp.ca/content/58/3/245
Deb Dana: https://www.rhythmofregulation.com/
https://www.danpink.com/books/whole-new-mind/