Managing Trauma and Three Steps to Dealing with Traumatic Memories

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This chapter discusses how to manage trauma and the three steps involved in dealing with traumatic memories: noticing it, validating it, and integrating it. It emphasizes the importance of viewing our bodies as barometers and being aware of the signals they give us.

Trauma seems like a bit of a black box at times, something that we all experience as part of our life journey as humans but surrounded by a lot of misinformation. In this episode, we are joined by our guest, Dr MC McDonald, author of The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong to break down all of the science and psychology behind why we react to trauma the way we do, suppressed memories, what actually counts as 'traumatic' and the impact of trauma on our body. We also explore some of the more unexpected traumas we encounter and attempt to answer the question "will I ever heal from my trauma?". All that and more in this episode.

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