S3E4: Trauma and Shame: People of Grief
Being Known Podcast
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The Trauma of Not Receiving What We Need
When we find ourselves in any kind of event in which we are able to escape the event, that capacity to shift back into the window of tolerance means that I'm not traumatized by the event. This is true for all kinds of things that we experience. We wouldn't think that a child being yelled at by their father or mother in public would necessarily be traumatized. But what happens if you grew up in a house where your parent is continually critical of you? That's like growing up in the Johnson's household. Except just like the collective capacity of what that person is then having to deal with their griefs because they don't have time and energy to do it.
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