Healing Trauma (Part 2): What Causes Trauma + Why Trauma Isn’t Just About Negative Thoughts

The Soul's Work Podcast

In this episode, Janice breaks down 4 (unofficial) “trauma basics” in sharing more about how trauma develops and is experienced:

1. Different types of trauma (shock, developmental, and complex trauma) and examples of potentially traumatic events;
2. Trauma is not about the event but a person’s subjective experience of the event;
3. Some factors that influence how vulnerable or resilient an individual might be to a potentially traumatic event;
4. Trauma is something that is experienced in a person’s nervous system + how our fight-flight-freeze response and more primitive parts of our brains are involved in the development of trauma.

She also offers some perspectives for how folks might approach learning about trauma and doing the healing work that involve self-compassion, holding multiple truths at the same time, and a holistic approach to our healing practices.

This episode is part 2 of an ongoing series on healing trauma.
*Please note that Janice is not a trauma expert or therapist, and that this series shares about her one personal experience of learning about and healing trauma

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Waking the Tiger (Peter Levine)
• Healing Developmental Trauma (Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre) (the NARM model)
• Episode 007: Dr. Laurence Heller in Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté on Complex Trauma and the Future of Trauma-Informed Care (Transforming Trauma Podcast)
• The Healing Trauma 3-Part Video Training (Irene Lyon)
• The Complex PTSD Workbook (Dr. Arielle Schwartz)
• How Your Brain Works & Changes | Episode 1 (Huberman Lab Podcast)

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Janice is a therapist-in-training and not licensed to work with clients.

DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for working with a professional mental health or healing practitioner.