#237 Is a Hyper-focus on Trauma Actually Hurting Us? with Maria Baer

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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A new study demonstrates that contrary to popular opinion, endless personal trauma-mining is actually destructive to our mental health. In our therapeutic age, everything is pathologized, from shoplifting to drug use to having a bad day. Maria Baer joins the podcast to talk about an article she wrote for World, titled “Make Resilience Cool Again.” Maria shares about our culture’s obsession with trauma care, and how we might actually be getting it wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------This video is sponsored by:SEVEN WEEKS COFFEETaste the Coffee that is Saving Lives.Use the code, ALISA, to get 10% off any product.www.sevenweekscoffee.comGOOD RANCHERSGood Ranchers: American Meat Delivered Use the code, ALISA, to get your FREE 10lb Easter Ham!Go to www.goodranchers.com/alisa for more information.SUMMIT MINISTRIESGive your teens an unshakeable faith that will last a lifetime.Use the code, ALISA24 for a 200.00 discount.www.summit.org/alisa--------------------------------------------------------------------To Purchase the new CD, “Beauty from the Ash”, go to www.alisachilders.com/musicThere you can get the CD, backing tracks, string charts, rhythm charts and stems.Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alisachildersTo order “Another Gospel”: www.alisachilders.com/anothergospelTo order “Live Your Truth": www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/For Alisa's Merch: https://alisachilders.creator-spring.comFor all links to Alisa’s recommended reading, visit the Alisa Childers Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/alisachildersTo see what gear Alisa uses to record her podcast, go to:https://kit.co/alisachildersPotential Sponsors: https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/Product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core
0:31.3	beliefs of historic Christianity discern its
0:33.6	counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth.
0:37.8	So have you ever heard something like this?
0:40.0	Procrustination is a trauma response.
0:44.0	Self-absorption is a trauma response.
0:46.0	Being rude is a trauma response.
0:49.0	Well, I hope we're going to make sense of this for you today.
0:52.0	I know this is something that I've been seeing on social media for a while.
0:57.0	I haven't really had language for it and I just had a conversation with Maria Bear and she's been thinking a lot about this. She just wrote an amazing article
1:05.7	entitled Make Resilience Cool Again. A new study demonstrates why endless personal trauma mining is
1:11.2	destructive, not restorative.
1:13.6	Now I want to just say from the beginning,
1:15.8	nobody is saying trauma doesn't exist
1:18.0	or that it shouldn't be something that's dealt with
1:20.0	and talked about.
1:21.2	But what Marie has really put her finger on is how we've almost
1:24.0	pathologized everything. So I want to read just a paragraph from her
1:28.8	article and then I'll take you into this conversation with her because I think
1:32.0	you're going to recognize this. She said if we were to follow this
1:36.0	thinking to a logical conclusion I don't think we'd like where it leads. I shudder
1:40.4	to imagine what else might be a trauma response and therefore not our fault and therefore totally acceptable and therefore deserving of accommodation and therefore helplessly chronic.
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