Becoming a Trauma-Informed Spiritual Explorer

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and a visiting scholar at Brown University. David is the founder of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM), a community of practitioners committed to setting a standard of care through mindfulness-based practices, interventions, and programs. Mindfulness meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices bring many benefits, but for those struggling with trauma, those practices can actually amplify their symptoms. That doesn’t mean they should avoid these practices. By adopting trauma-sensitive principles, those healing from trauma often have the most to gain. In this episode, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Dr. David Treleaven, a leading voice in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM), to explore the five principles of TSM, why the breath is not always a neutral or safe object of attention, how to tell if an intense meditation experience is helping or not, when to lean in to your practice and when to change direction, techniques to re-ground and regulate, guidance for meditation teachers, the importance of supportive relationships in TSM, and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.6	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is David Trelevin, PhD.
0:48.6	David is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness
0:55.0	and trauma.
0:56.5	He's the founder of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, TSM, a community of practitioners committed
1:03.9	to setting a standard of care through mindfulness-based practices, interventions, and programs.
1:10.9	His work has been adopted into multiple mindfulness teacher training programs around the
1:16.2	world, including UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.
1:21.7	David is the author of the acclaimed book, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, and is a visiting
1:27.8	scholar at Brown University and has worked with a number of organizations to bring trauma-sensitive
1:34.5	mindfulness to their staff and programs.
1:38.2	David's work reveals an astounding and at first troubling fact that some people who immerse
1:46.2	themselves in mindfulness meditation actually become retraumatized through the practice
1:53.8	if teachers are not well-trained and trauma-informed.
1:59.2	What does it mean to become a trauma-informed mindfulness teacher?
2:03.4	And then as spiritual explorers ourselves, how do we navigate our journey with the tools
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