Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show.

I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest Lynn Fraser.

Hi, Lynn.

Hi, Kelly. Nice to be here. Thank you. Yes, thank you for taking

the time to hop on the show. You're welcome. Now, do you mind if I share a little bit more about

you with our audience before we get started? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. Great. So Lynn Fraser brings the depth

of 20 years experience teaching meditation.

She specializes in holding a safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her private online sessions, classes, and retreats.

Lynn lives near family, ocean, and forest in Nova Scotia.

She is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga meditation tradition and an experienced facilitator of Scott Killeb's living inquiries.

And a quote from Lynn, fast forward 25 years from when I first learned meditation, I see and love myself, I am authentic and connect deeply.

Trauma is largely healed and resolved. My body is relaxed and a known space.

And you can find Lynn at Lynn Fraser stillpoint.com. So Lynn, today we're going to talk a bit about trauma. Do you mind,

you know, starting things off? Can you kind of describe what trauma is? Because I think many of us,

and I was definitely a part of this camp,

believe trauma is reserved for only the most horrific of situations like war. But is this even true?

That's such a good question to start with, because it's actually not. It's a much wider definition than that.

I really like Dr. Gabor-Matte's definition of trauma, which includes that it's any experience

that we have that leads us to be disconnected from ourselves, our sense of value and from the present moment. So it's not

just war or car accidents or assault or those kinds of things. It can really include neglect.

And when we're looking at developmental trauma in particular, which is something that happens when

we're children, anything that threatens our survival, physically, emotionally, socially,

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