Welcome to this episode where I look at the emerging idea that trauma is not an illness or a broken-ness, but is in fact "transdiagnostic"... it goes outside, and across specific diagnoses and pathologies. When we see it in this way, we get some insights and freedoms open up.
03:05 Polyvagal Theory - How this amazing nerve, the longest in our body, keeps us safe through fight, flight and freeze response when it senses danger, and how trauma is a body, not a mind response
08:10 Our "modern" social engagement system in the brain and how this shows up in our modern world
11:37 What do we mean by transdiagnostic - cutting across multiple domains rather than single diagnostic criteria
12:19 Early psychiatrists working with soldiers from the World War 1 battlefields, began to consider that people were having a normal reaction to an abnormal event
13:30 The stigma of mental illness
16:19 My experience of release following Havening Techniques.
18:49 Why I think there's a lot of hope now as there are so many ways you can explore what works for you
Essay "Trauma Needs a Rebrand - Trauma, Psychedelics, Limitations of Our Existing Models, and Exciting Alternatives" by Liam Farquhar https://psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/trauma
Bessel van der Kolk - the Body Keeps the Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfmfkDQb14
Peter Levine - Trauma is not an illness, but an injury or wound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31z0veuNe9c
Polyvagal Theory explained. Somatic Consent Engagement System and Social Engagement System. Matthias Schwenteck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FSiBqEDUs
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