62. Is Your Productivity a Trauma Response? Are You Self-Medicating With Work?
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Are you driven to do more, yet constantly feel overwhelmed? Discover if your productivity is truly serving you, or if it’s a deeper response rooted in trauma.
In this enlightening episode of the Plenty podcast, I uncover the often-overlooked link between productivity and trauma. Drawing inspiration from Erica Chidi Cohen and Dr. Valerie Rein’s Patriarchy Stress Disorder, I invite listeners to explore how societal and generational conditioning can lead us to tie our self-worth to how much we accomplish. I gently peel back the layers of personal, collective, and ancestral experiences that shape our nervous systems and drive the need to stay constantly busy. Last but not least– I share compassionate, practical strategies for healing and re-patterning, focusing on the practice of titration—taking small, intentional steps toward slowing down. Join this conversation to discover why embracing the power of doing less can open the door to more abundance and fulfillment in your life.
Tune in for an episode filled with insight, heart, and healing wisdom!
“What we know about epigenetics is that the experiences of our ancestors continue to live in our DNA, especially if they were emotionally intense.” – Kate Northrup
Links and Resources:
Erica Chidi Cohen
Patriarchy Stress Disorder by Dr. Valerie Rein
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women by Kate Northrup
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing the World by Adrienne Maree Brown
The One Thing by Gary Keller
www.katenorthrup.com/breakthroughs
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| 0:00.0 | We really need to pop ourselves out of the matrix and realize like being busier, doing more things does not actually equal better results. |
| 0:10.5 | It just equals looking busy and doing things all the time. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey |
| 0:22.9 | to help you have an incredible relationship |
| 0:25.6 | with money, time, and energy, |
| 0:28.8 | and to have abundance on every possible level. |
| 0:33.8 | Every week, we're gonna dive in with experts |
| 0:36.7 | and insights to help you unlock a life of Plenty. |
| 0:41.8 | Let's go fill our cups. |
| 0:43.8 | Please note that the opinions and perspectives of the guests on the Plenty podcast are not necessarily reflective of the opinions and perspectives of Kate Northrup or anyone who works within the Kate Northrop |
| 0:55.0 | brand. Today, I want to talk about a really important topic, which is productivity as a trauma |
| 1:04.2 | response. Years ago, I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw a post by Erica Chitty Cohen that said, |
| 1:13.4 | productivity is a trauma response. And I knew instantly, because my body recognized it, |
| 1:21.1 | I got chills, and I knew for myself, that was true. Later on at a retreat with Raw Goddess, |
| 1:29.5 | I was handed a book called Patriarchy Stress Disorder by Dr. Valerie Rain. |
| 1:35.0 | And as I read the book, I was so struck by the truth, |
| 1:40.0 | which is that as a woman in our culture, specifically, |
| 1:48.5 | it has not historically been safe. |
| 1:49.7 | Just period. |
| 1:50.9 | Safe at all. |
| 1:55.5 | To be female in the world for thousands of years. |
| 2:07.7 | And so we have adaptive strategies that we've taken on that our body thinks is keeping us safe. And one of those strategies is being productive. |
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