People can experience a wide range of emotions before and after a disaster or traumatic event. There’s no right or wrong way to feel. However, it’s important to find healthy ways to cope when these events happen. You may be struggling to understand why this is happening, or you may be directly dealing with the aftermath of a crisis with the loss of a friend or family member, a failed relationship, financial setbacks, community violence, and world issues. The thoughts, feelings and even physical effects after these types of events is called trauma.
Cory George is a nationally recognized mental health and trauma expert, award-winning television personality, author and multimedia producer whose work has been featured on FOX, CBS, NBC, and HUFFPOST Live as well as being a featured interventionist on the A&E original series “Digital Addiction”. George is also the recipient of the 2023 U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteerism. After rising above his own traumatic childhood experiences that included childhood rape and molestation, bullying, emotional and physical abuse, and the feelings of abandonment to becoming a purpose-driven practitioner of healing by means of research, information-sharing, and advocating for the increase mental health equity for marginalized communities. He has committed his life to the ministry of helping hurt people to “Live Bigger Than Their Baggage”.
