The Trauma Tapes

The Trauma Tapes

By Dr. MC McDonaldScienceSocial SciencesHealth & FitnessMental HealthEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Trauma Tapes episodes

  • Track 31 - Name, Tame, Befriend

    This week we unpack the 100 other things exercise from last week. We talk about our negative thoughts about ourselves and how we can counteract them with 100 other things. Then we explain the tool for next week - which is based on radical acceptance, learn to name, tame and befriend all of our feelings.

    47 min
  • Track 30 - 100 Other Things

    This week we unpack the punching back exercise from last week. We talk about our negative thoughts about ourselves and how we can reframe them and teach ourselves to think differently. Then we explain the tool for next week - which is to look at the labels we've been carrying around against a list of 100 other things about ourselves.

    57 min
  • Track 29 - Punching Back

    This week we unpack our experience practicing the hope circuit exercises from last week. We talk hope and gratitude before we move on to the next exercise, which is an exercise I call punching back. In it, you take the negative beliefs that you're carrying around and put them on paper. Then you punch back by asking what the flip side of the negative beliefs is. If you say "I'm needy" for example, you might punch back by saying, "I'm also very loving."

    46 min
  • Track 28 - The Hope Circuit
    This week, we start by detailing what it was like to go through the tool from last week. We take each other through the narrative choose your own interpretation exercise and come to some deep conclusions! Then we unpack the hope circuit and explain two quick exercises to try for next week.
    55 min
  • Track 27 - Choose Your Own Perspectives
    We share our experiences from the tool last week, which leads to a conversation about limiting beliefs and how to challenge them. Then we explain the next tool - which is a choose your own adventure style narrative tool to help you expand those shame spiral stories you get stuck in.
    55 min
  • Track 26 - 4 Questions
    This week we continue talking tools. This time we use top-down regulation to change the way our thoughts take hold in the body. We use Byron Katie's 4 questions as a framework.
    50 min
  • Track 25 - Trauma Tools
    We are starting a new series focused on tools! This week we talk about what traumatic overwhelm looks like in the brain, how it impacts the body, and why you need a whole toolbox of tools to cope. Then we talk about two quick tools to practice with to help you regulate activation and overwhelm in your nervous system.
    49 min
  • Track 24 - No More Playing Small
    We meet the letter writer at a crossroads - trying to decide whether to give up her partner or her family. We talk about family relationships, the importance of surrounding yourself with people who accept you, and recalibrating expectations of family members when you grow.
    55 min
  • Track 23 - You CAN be traumatized as an adult
    In this episode, we talk to the letter writer about the legitimacy of her own experience. We talk about the malleability of the brain, how we are all lizards according to the fire alarm in the brain, and why it is so problematic to believe that if you didn't have childhood trauma that you can't be traumatized.
    52 min
  • Track 22 - A Tough Spot.
    We talk to the letter writer about the tough spot she finds herself in - grappling withe a life of trauma and in the middle of a traumatic marriage at its breaking point. We get pretty fired up in this one as we try to mirror back to her what is going on and help her find some hope.
    1 hr 1 min

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A podcast about overwhelming experiences and how to cope with the traces those experiences leave.