Hey everyone. Welcome to He'll Survive and Thrive. I don't know where you are in the world, but here in the U.S., it is probably the coldest winter. I'm talking Arctic temperatures. It was minus one degree this morning. I mean, and it is so incredibly windy out today. So if you hear the wind, I apologize, but it's just Mother Nature doing her thing. I'm not here for it, but like I always say,

we're stuck in traffic and we're not going anywhere, so we kind of have to deal with it.

Anyways, get a cup of tea, get your electric blanket. If you're in a warmer climate, good for you.

Good for you. Cheers for you. But we're all bitter and angry and cold and pale and have runny noses here.

So let's just start this podcast.

I know we're all well aware at this point that chronic stress is just obviously not good

for us.

But I want to take a step back a little bit.

And I want to talk about stress and trauma and responsibility trauma more specifically because a lot of us are walking around

with more than burnout, more than a lot of stress in our lives.

I don't know anyone that's walking around, unfortunately, that doesn't have a fair amount

of stress on their back.

But what we're focusing on today is the

trauma that happens from having way too much responsibility, most likely from a very early

age, being the fixer, being the overgiver. And most people are really walking around with so

much unheeled stuff, unheeled trauma, and they're

wondering why they have extreme fatigue. They have migraines. They have joint pains. They have arthritis.

They have digestive issues. I mean, I'm talking like bad immune systems, someone who's just like hypervigilant, always on the

lookout, always waiting for the other shoe to drop. The worst part is that so many people are just

living on autopilot and they're so detached from the fact that this is how they live their

life and they think this is actually the norm, whether you're dealing with depression, whether you're

dealing with massive anxiety whether you're dealing with

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