One of the reasons people go to therapy is to discuss and process a traumatic experience. In this episode, we introduce the concept of "big T" and "little t" traumas. "Big T" traumas describe experiences that threaten your physical safety like physical injury or sexual violence, while little T traumas on the other hand describe experiences that are still distressing but don’t immediately threaten your physical safety like loss of certain relationships or verbal bullying. In the workplace I think very few of our experiences fall into the clinical definition of "Big T" trauma but there are a ton that fall into the little T and maybe even a “micro” T trauma category. For this session we’ll open up these definitions a bit to adapt to the context. We’ll say that trauma is a negative experience that was life-altering for you in some way. In this week's episode, Scott and Skylar share some of their "little t" and "micro t" workplace traumas and discuss how those experiences changed them and what they learned as a result.