Ep. 190: PTSD, Trauma, and EMDR: When Your Career Makes You Sick with Former Lawyer, Lara Connolly

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Talk therapy can be a valuable resource, but what happens when you’re all talked out and still feel your body is holding onto trauma? This is where teacher’s assistant Lara Connolly found herself after years of trying talk therapy and never feeling like it was quite enough to help alleviate her physical exhaustion and stress. It wasn’t until she tried EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), a form of psychotherapy designed to alleviate the distress caused by traumatic memories, that she finally started to feel her body come back to life. Looking back, Lara can see how much shame and rejection was stored in her body after a lifetime of having untreated ADHD and how significantly it had been impacting her emotional regulation and physical health. Lara not only took the steps to heal her trauma, but she also made real changes to her lifestyle that provide more balance and prioritize joy; her dedication to living an authentic ADHD life is truly inspiring and I’m delighted to bring you this conversation. Resources Instagram:

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0:00.0	If you think your child struggling with something, check it out, because the sooner you get
0:05.2	on to it, the younger that they are, the more open they are to experiencing it as part
0:11.2	of who they are without all the social stigma and things getting to them as an older person.
0:17.1	And just the impact it has on your self-esteem, you know, years and years of feeling bad
0:22.6	about yourself, it's not great for anybody and if you can prevent that for your children
0:27.8	by finding out what that struggle is and helping them with strategies, that's the biggest
0:32.9	gift you can give them.
0:39.5	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Montserrat, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:49.2	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of occasions.
0:55.0	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:01.2	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:04.6	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brockovich,
1:15.8	Cher.
1:16.8	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:21.4	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:27.0	I'm your host, Tracy Oksuka.
1:29.3	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:34.1	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-OK, a system that helps people like you
1:41.1	figure out what they should do with their life.
1:44.0	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how
1:50.2	you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:54.3	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts.
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