EP 0081 - Overcoming Anxiety: Dealing With The "Inescapable" Memory of Past Trauma (w/Monique Koven)
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today Monique and I spent some time discussing the memories of past trauma and abuse, and how the old feeling of being unable to escape can often live on. This can represent an obstacle to recovery when it leads to viewing attempts at recovery and improvement as being futile or not worth the effort or energy. Monique shares some amazing insight about the role of compassion and how we can combine this with the tools and techniques we've discussed so often as being so effective in recovering from an anxiety disorder. A great listen for anyone dealing with past trauma and/or abuse alongside an anxiety disorder. Thank you Monique!
Find the episode Monique and I discussed here: https://anchor.fm/monique34/episodes/The-Underlying-Fear-In-Trauma-e5dhrj
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Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission. Find Ben Drake on Facebook or at bendrakemusic.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Drew. Hey Monique, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm glad you made it. |
| 0:12.0 | Thank you. I'm glad you made it. |
| 0:12.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:14.6 | So for everybody listening, I'm here with my friend Monique Coven once again, |
| 0:18.8 | joined again by Monique. |
| 0:20.6 | And Monique is a trauma recovery coach that you can find at |
| 0:25.0 | CPDS.com. |
| 0:27.8 | And Monique and I get together once in a while |
| 0:29.4 | to talk about some interesting topics that are sort of related to what we got going on in the |
| 0:33.1 | podcast and what are we going to talk about today? Well I was telling you about and |
| 0:39.9 | I actually made a podcast on this. You know, I discovered, which I kind of already knew, |
| 0:47.0 | but I myself was listening to a training on trauma, |
| 0:52.0 | and it was talking about one of the biggest shocking experiences when we have trauma |
| 1:00.5 | is that we go through this experience of you know fight and flight getting ready. is getting |
| 1:05.0 | ready to do something ready to our bodies and mobilize is getting mobilized |
| 1:08.0 | ready to do something |
| 1:10.0 | and then we have this realization |
| 1:12.0 | that there's nothing we can do. |
| 1:15.0 | And in this training, Dr Bessel van der Kolk said, |
| 1:22.0 | it's this realization that we cannot escape. |
| 1:27.3 | It's the inescapability piece and when I heard that, yes, that's exactly it. |
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