415: Tiny Traumas with Dr. Meg Arroll
The Adult Chair
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is an absolute gem, especially if you’ve ever felt that nagging feeling that something just isn’t quite right, but you can’t put your finger on it. You know, those moments when everything seems okay on the surface, but deep down, you feel uneasy?
Well, you’re not alone, and we’ve got an expert to shed some light on this!
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Meg Arroll to the show. Dr. Arroll is a psychologist, scientist, and the brilliant author of "Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong but Nothing Feels Quite Right." In our chat, she dives deep into the concept of "tiny traumas" — those small, often overlooked experiences that accumulate over time and can significantly impact our mental and physical health.
Listen in to learn the significance of these tiny traumas and what you can do about it.
In this episode, you will hear:
- The connection between trauma and conditions like IBS, anxiety, and depression.
- Examination of high-functioning anxiety and its manifestations, such as emotional blunting and sleep problems.
- The stigma around health issues like urinary incontinence and menopause and the importance of open conversations.
- Techniques for nervous system regulation and grounding to address underlying anxiety.
- The prevalence of imposter syndrome, especially among women and marginalized groups, and its link to microaggressions in the workplace.
- Emphasis on the mind-body connection and the role of psychological treatments in improving physical conditions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michelle Shelfont, Psychotherapist, Holistic Life Coach, and Human, just like you, learning to navigate life challenges. |
| 0:11.0 | With over 25 years experience, I teach people how to get |
| 0:14.8 | healthy using the adult chair model. The adult chair model is where simple |
| 0:19.2 | psychology meets grounded spirituality and it teaches us how to become healthy adults. |
| 0:26.2 | From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues you can use the adult |
| 0:30.8 | chair for just about anything. |
| 0:33.6 | Each week I share practical tips, tools, and advice |
| 0:37.6 | from myself and a wide range of experts |
| 0:40.1 | on how to get unstuck, |
| 0:41.6 | how to love authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all while sitting |
| 0:46.5 | in your adult chair. Welcome to the adult chair podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the adult chair podcast, |
| 0:57.0 | where we talk all about how to become a conscious healthy adult. |
| 1:06.5 | Today we are talking all about trauma, |
| 1:09.7 | but not just any trauma, |
| 1:11.6 | we're talking about tiny traumas. So what do I mean by that? |
| 1:16.4 | And this is what is intriguing me. This is why I was excited to have. |
| 1:19.2 | Today on the show we have Dr. Meg Errol. I'm excited to have her on because she's written this book called Tiny Traumas and in my own journey I |
| 1:26.5 | realized I never had big giant big traumas in my life but something in my life didn't feel quite right. |
| 1:34.7 | And when I learned many, many years ago, wow, I've experienced a lot of small traumas or |
| 1:39.6 | small tea traumas, as they call them. |
| 1:42.4 | The more I learned about trauma, the more I realized |
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