Britt Frank is my guest today. Friends-you are going to love her. Britt's vibrant energy and enthusiasm for this healing work just oozes through our conversation.
Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP is a clinician, educator and trauma specialist. She speaks and writes widely about the mental health myths that keep us stuck and stressed. Britt received her BA from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she later became an award-winning adjunct professor. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Level 3 trained in the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model. Britt was a primary therapist at a drug and alcohol treatment center, an inpatient therapist at a children’s psychiatric hospital, and now owns a private practice.
Britt and I cover A LOT of ground in this episode beginning with the beauty we can find in rigidity. We often deem rigidity as a 'bad thing,' but rigid recovery as she calls it, can be the very thing we need to call upon at times when we are first setting out in this healing work. Britt unpacks why the word AND has so much potency in healing and growth work and helps us decipher when black and white thinking can be helpful, and when we need to call upon adding more 'grey' to our lives.
In this episode we also talk about the definition of trauma, how we must incorporate thought work into our healing and how we can't rely on thought work alone.
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I love Britt's approach to healing work because it allows me to remember that I am whole, complete, good and enough, JUST as a I am. It's grounded in simplicity and science, authenticity and real-life experiences of overcoming trauma and failure in order to show that anything is possible.
“Trauma is the absence of boundaries. Trauma is the complete absence of the ability to choose.” ~Britt Frank
"One of the healing medicines for trauma is boundaries." ~Britt Frank
"Shame does nothing for anyone."~Britt Frank
"No one can make you feel anything actually isn’t true." ~Britt Frank
"Trauma is not a fact or a permanent state." ~Britt Frank
"When you’re in survival mode-none of the thinking stuff will work." ~Britt Frank
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