175.The Path to Post-Traumatic Growth with James S. Gordon, MD

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Here are two truths about trauma: We all experience it sooner or later, and with the right tools we can move through it and heal. In this episode, trauma expert and Center for Mind-Body Medicine founder, James Gordon, MD, shares how he understands, treats, and ultimately transforms trauma into an opportunity for profound personal growth. Commune recently launched a course with Dr. Gordon called Transforming Trauma. Join the course free for 5 days: https://www.onecommune.com/transform Learn more about Commune at onecommune.com. Connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:15.5	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the
0:23.9	Commune podcast, or each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this
0:29.2	healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life. You can check out our course platform at OneCommune.com,
0:36.1	where you'll find programs from Marianne Williamson,
0:39.0	Deepak Chopra, Russell Brand, Wim Hof, Brendan Breschard, Adrian Mischler, and many other brilliant
0:44.5	personal development and wellness luminaries. Our courses span yoga, meditation, spiritual development,
0:51.7	functional medicine, recovery, and social impact.
0:54.6	Essentially, everything you need to be holistically well.
0:59.4	Just go to one commune.com.
1:03.4	Okay, so my guest on the show today is Dr. James Gordon.
1:07.7	Dr. Gordon is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist who is internationally recognized for
1:12.8	using self-awareness, different forms of meditation, diet, and group support to treat
1:18.9	psychological trauma. He has traveled to some of the most emiserated and war-torn places of the
1:26.1	world, including Haiti after the devastating earthquake,
1:30.2	sub-Saharan Africa, Gaza, Marjorie Stileman Douglas High School in the wake of the mass shooting,
1:35.8	New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sonoma after the ravaging fires,
1:41.5	and really there is almost no place Jim hasn't gone to help people heal
1:45.6	from acute trauma. His work is done under the Aegis of the Center for Mind Body Medicine,
1:52.6	a nonprofit. He started in 1991 in Washington, D.C., where he worked in both Clinton and Bush
1:59.3	administrations as chairman of the White House Commission
2:02.5	on complementary and alternative medicine policy.
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