Beyond Your WHY Turn Down the Trauma Loop: How the Mind Replays Pain and How to Change It with Dr. Don Wood
Meet Dr. Don Wood.
His WHY.os is Contribute - Challenge - Better Way
Dr. Don Wood is a neuroscientist, author, speaker, and Founder & CEO of Inspired Performance Institute. His work focuses on how trauma and disturbing events can keep running in the background and shape how someone thinks, feels, and performs.
In this episode, Dr. WHY talks with Don through the lens of Don’s WHY, Contribute. Don’s drive is to help people feel less stuck in their own mind so they can show up for life again. His HOW, Challenge, pushes against the idea that you have to live with intense emotional loops forever. His WHAT, Better Way, is his practical method for helping people reduce the intensity of the memories that keep pulling them back.
You’ll learn:
- Why the mind can treat an old painful memory like it is happening right now.
- A simple way Don describes reducing the “intensity” of a memory without pretending it never happened.
- How Don’s Contribute WHY shows up as a clear goal: help people stop fighting the past so they can live forward.
Listen to this episode if you want a clearer understanding of why grief and trauma can hit so hard, and what it can look like to lower the emotional volume.
Get in touch with Don:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdonwoodphd/
- Instagram: N/A (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrDonWoodPhD)
- Website: https://www.gettipp.com/
00:01 – Why Don’s work matters right now
00:42 – The mind replays a painful moment like it is “now”
01:12 – “An emotion is a call for an action”
01:35 – High definition vs low definition memories
01:57 – How do you actually turn it down?
02:02 – The two-minute recall and process work
02:23 – When the mind stops reacting like it is happening now
02:35 – Moving from “last moments” to the full relationship
03:12 – “There’s nothing wrong with you. It’s just a glitch.”
03:33 – Sadness can stay; the urgent panic can stop
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Inspired Performance Institute
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Dr. Don's Giveaway:
https://www.inspiredperformanceinstitute.com/hecklermethod/
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