Healing from Mental and Physical Trauma | Dr. Don Wood

#172 Today I'm here with Dr. Don Wood. Don is the founder and CEO of Inspired Performance Institute, an institute that since 2015, has been helping people heal from limiting effects of trauma. Our conversation today revolves mainly around the concept of trauma. We talk about how physical and emotional trauma can manifest as depression, anxiety, cancer, and or Crohn's disease, among other illnesses. We also discuss ways through which we can heal and move past our traumas and remove painful emotional charge from the memories that plague us. I highly recommend you give this episode a listen, even if you think you have no trauma to heal from, as sometimes trauma can go unnoticed. About Don: Dr. Don Wood is a councillor and CEO at Inspired Performance Institute. He developed the Inspired Performance Institute after spending years researching how trauma affects our minds and our lives. Dr. Wood began to understand that events and experiences throughout our lifetime continue to play a role in how we experience life in the present. He also realized that there was a better way of treating the issue. "Teaching people to live with, manage and cope with the daily stress doesn't fix the problem. The solution comes from understanding it's source and providing a long-term permanent solution". Don's Website: www.inspiredperformanceinstitute.com

Key points with time stamp:

• Healing from Mental and Physical Trauma| Dr. Don Wood (00:00)
• Reaching ultimate performance levels: Don's work in his own words (00:30)
• What is neuroscience? (01:04)
• What is limiting you from reaching your potential performance? (01:39)
• Are trauma and autoimmune diseases connected? (02:52)
• Real-life examples for the influence of trauma on the body (04:59)
• Does healing begin instantly after trauma is removed? (07:54)
• The stress response and cancer (09:33)
• Mental manifestations of trauma (11:52)
• Identifying trauma (13:33)
• Can we be unaware of our traumas? (15:12)
• How far back can trauma go? (17:19)
• How Don reached his conclusions (18:53)
• The story of Sunny Jacobs (21:15)
• The attachment of emotions to memories (23:31)
• Does anger lie at the root of depression? (25:16)
• The effects of shifting trauma on our lives (27:13)
• Athletes and head trauma (29:53)
• The effects of hyperbaric oxygen chambers (33:05)
• Healing while asleep (34:34)
• Healing in group environments (36:47)
• The future of Don's work (41:29)
• A low point in Don's life that later became a blessing (42:00)
• The effects of our upbringings on our stress responses (43:53)
• Don's morning routine (45:47)
• You Must be Out of Your Mind (46:39)
• Don't be so hard on yourself (47:27)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Lisa Tamati
• Inspired Performance Institute
• ATP, an organic compound that provides energy to drive processes in your living cells
• Crohn's disease
• Bruce Lipton
• Sunny Jacobs
• Marlo Thomas
• Susan Saran
• Kate Capshaw
• You Must be Out of Your Mind, 2020. Don's book

About me:

My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co