How to Get the Girl: By the Ask Women Podcast Ep. 528 Break Free: How Hidden Trauma Is Running Your Life (And How to Stop It)
May 20, 2025
Tori Helf, a trauma expert and transformation specialist with three psychology degrees, dives deep into the impact of hidden trauma on our lives. She explains how both significant and subtle past experiences shape our self-confidence and dating dynamics. Tori offers practical tools to identify and heal these hidden wounds, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in fostering healthy relationships. The discussion also includes humorous anecdotes and insights on navigating modern dating while enhancing emotional connections.
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Redefining Trauma's Impact
- Trauma often involves small everyday experiences, not just extreme events like war.
- These traumas get stored in the body and affect later behaviors and relationships.
Identify Trauma Behind Behaviors
- Identify behaviors blocking your dating success, then trace them to their root traumatic thoughts.
- Becoming self-aware of these patterns is essential to healing and change.
Heal Trauma Through Connection
- Seek the level of support your trauma requires, from therapy to coaching or trusted conversation.
- Healing trauma largely depends on forming safe connections with others.