The One You Feed How to Find Your Path to Healing and Post-Traumatic Growth with Ralph De La Rosa
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Jan 3, 2025 
Ralph De La Rosa, a psychotherapist and author of Outshining Trauma, shares profound insights on healing and personal growth. He delves into the nature of trauma, emphasizing self-compassion and community support in the healing journey. Ralph discusses the impact of rejection sensitive dysphoria and offers strategies for post-traumatic growth. He introduces the Internal Family Systems model as a tool for understanding our inner landscape, advocating for love and compassion as essential for emotional recovery and a balanced life.
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Nourishing the Bad Wolf
- The "bad wolf" metaphor represents negative qualities that can be transformed with compassion.
- Healing involves nourishing these qualities with love instead of fighting them.
Defining Trauma
- Trauma is defined as an adverse experience where defense mechanisms are triggered but ineffective.
- This can result in intense neurochemical activity with no outlet, leading to traumatic stress.
Subjectivity of Trauma
- Trauma's impact is subjective; our brains respond to perceptions, not objective reality.
- Factors like rejection sensitivity and privilege influence whether trauma becomes traumatic stress.
