Ep. 045 What Healing from Trauma Can Look Like
E.E. Cummings - “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Why is it hard to talk about trauma?
Bessel vdK said that “traumatized people are not popular people because they remind us about how irrational society is and rational solutions can not take care of those traumatized.” There had been too much shame around trauma and the inhumanity that is often involved with trauma. He also said,“After trauma your brain gets chained, you see the world differently, and you live in a different body in a different world. The great challenge of trauma treatment is to help to feel fully alive and to detoxify themself from the trauma.”
Bessel’s work with yoga and trauma showed much better results than any of the studies he did with pharmaceuticals.
PTSD treatment with MDMA and Psilocybin allow people to see themselves with compassion. Difference between studies and common use today.
Gabor Mate - “Suffering is not because of the pain we experience, but because of our refusal to accept the pain.” …. “What creates the trauma is not that something hurts, but that we don’t know how to be with that pain. So we build all these defenses against it and we close our hearts.” Gabor’s 7 Impacts of Trauma: 1. Separation from self, 2. Disconnection from others, 3. Altered worldview, 4. Lifelong pain, 5. Cognitive development, 6. Personal shame, and 7. Difficulty being present
Dan Siegal’s mapping of intention. Healing from trauma changes how we map other people’s intentions. Trauma work creates a Flexible, Adaptable, Coherent, Energized, and Stable State.
Physiological responses to healing. Peter Levine’s story of Haim Dasberg, who was a leading researcher for Holocaust survivors. Haim had dealt with life long, severe back pain. The pain was connected to when he was a doctor in WWII and his truck was ambushed, everyone but him was killed. He had been thrown out of the truck and not noticed. Back pain was gone after TRE work.
