Dr. Tracey Shors: ...longterm effects of trauma and what we can do to reduce them

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Everyone experiences trauma. Whether it’s a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments over time, trauma can etch itself into our brains and echo as we remember it over and over throughout our lives. On this episode, we find out about the longterm effects of trauma and what we can do to reduce them. Joining us is neuroscientist Dr. Tracey Shors, who’s the author of the book, "EVERYDAY TRAUMA: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:10.7	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.1	Everyone experiences trauma and whether it's a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments over time.
0:20.1	Trauma can etch itself into our brains
0:21.9	and echo as we remember it over and over throughout our lives. On this episode, we'll find out
0:27.0	about the long-term effects of trauma and what we can do to reduce them. Joining us as neuroscientist,
0:32.5	Dr. Tracy Shores, who's the author of a fantastic new book called Everyday Traumapping the brain's response
0:40.6	to stress, anxiety, and painful memories for a better life. Dr. Shores, thank you so much for
0:46.5	joining us. Thank you for inviting me. It's great to be here. Tell us more about the kinds of
0:52.7	experiences that cause trauma. Well, they're almost too long
0:58.2	to list, right? There's so many things that can be traumatic. They're not necessarily always traumatic.
1:07.8	But, you know, everything from, you know, the death of a loved one to a violent attack to a natural disaster, I would certainly include the pandemic as a traumatic event.
1:25.4	The term everyday trauma kind of spans beyond our typical idea of trauma.
1:34.0	Usually we think of a traumatic event as something kind of discrete, definable, maybe even
1:40.7	kind of short in terms of how long it lasts.
1:51.4	But I kind of came up with a term of everyday trauma to describe other types of trauma that do go on, you know, day after day, week after week.
1:56.5	To some extent, the pandemic is like that.
2:00.0	Maybe if you're suffering from a,
2:02.8	an illness, a chronic illness or taking care of somebody who is
2:07.1	discrimination, et cetera.
2:09.7	So there's like a lot of traumas that actually are quite protracted go on like day
2:15.0	after day, week after week.
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