Elizabeth Stanley: Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Stanley is a Georgetown University professor and the creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, an approach taught to thousands in civilian and military high stress environments. A U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She is the author of the book, Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Elizabeth Stanley about her 8-session online course, Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training: A Trauma-Sensitive Online Course to Build Resilience and Thrive During Stress. They also discuss why MMFT is a practice we can all benefit from; the value of expanding our "window of tolerance"; the relationship between personal agency and trauma; the "thinking" brain versus the "survival" brain; when stress becomes trauma; the importance of recovery from stressful situations; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:14.4	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making
0:20.8	transformational education widely available.
0:25.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools
0:30.0	such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.0	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:55.2	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:59.6	please visit sounds true Foundation.org.
1:03.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Elizabeth Stanley.
1:13.0	Liz Stanley is a Georgetown University professor and the creator of
1:18.0	mindfulness-based mind fitness training, referred to as M Fit, for short.
1:25.0	M Fit is taught to thousands in civilian and military high-stress
1:31.0	environments to help people in those environments be better resilient in high
1:36.8	stress situations. Liz is a long-standing mindfulness practitioner and a certified practitioner of
1:44.3	somatic experiencing a body-based trauma therapy.
1:49.7	With sounds true, Liz Stanley has created a new eight week online course bringing M fit to the online world, trauma sensitive mindfulness training.
2:02.0	Throughout this online course, Liz Stanley guides people through the neurobiology of stress, trauma, and resilience.
2:12.0	And she gives us interactive tools and daily practices so that we can recover,
2:20.5	heal and increase our ability to thrive in stressful times.
2:26.0	Originally, I thought that MFIT was designed for people who had high stress jobs, people who were first responders, people who were first responders, people working as firefighters,
2:38.8	as EMTs, as police professionals serving in the military, listening to Liz and feeling
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