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Social Baseline Theory and the Power of Connection with Dr. Jim Coan

Transforming Trauma

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Transforming Trauma - What Do You Want Your Brain to Say?

Don't discount the power of being around others who you love and trust. Your brain will try very hard to convince you that going out to that office party is going to be just a slog and miserable, but go anyway. We now know in study after study after study, almost unequivocally that you're a bad predictor of your future emotional feelings. And that's especially true when it comes to hanging around other people. When we're traumatized, we often think we need to sort of stay at home, tend to our wounds, and then we get lonely.

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