You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 313.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Well hello my friends.

Today I want to talk about a concept that was brought to my attention by many of the healthcare workers that we have in our community.

We have a lot of nurses and doctors and people on the front lines right now in our community and they're telling me what's going on and they're telling me what they're struggling with and how they're coping with it.

We feel really strongly about utilizing what they're learning and what they're talking about and offering it to you and to any other maybe healthcare worker that you know of that isn't in our community yet, that we can help in every way we can.

So let me tell you what the original post was from Olivia. She said, Brook, I was just talking to a nurse about coaching and she was talking about what it's like in the hospital.

The panic before the storm and she referred to it as pre-traumatic stress. I thought it would be a great topic for the podcast.

I since learned that there was an article written by a doctor on this concept pre-traumatic stress and so I went to do some research on it.

As most of you know, I did a podcast on post traumatic growth, a concept that I had studied. I think it's been a couple years now and that's had such a helpful impact for so many people that have had trauma.

Those of us who have had trauma in our lives that have had a hard time processing it and working through it because we have felt like it's something that will plague us for the rest of our lives have been really I think inspired by that concept of post traumatic growth.

And the concept there is that we are stronger because of the trauma instead of in spite of it. It has been part of our life that was meant to happen.

And I've recently been at night watching, I think it's on prime, I just started watching a series called I think it's called the rook.

And when I say I've been watching it, what I really mean is I've been falling asleep to it.

But one of the concepts in there is there's I don't really know what's going on because I keep falling asleep. But in general, so if you're a huge fan of the show, don't be mad at me if I get this wrong.

But there's people in the show that have super powers ish and one of the people in the show has the power to erase memories.

And it's really interesting I was just watching yesterday and there was a woman who her young daughter had been gang raped and she wanted this guy that had the ability to erase memories to come and erase that memory of that experience.

So she could be happy again. And it had such a profound effect on me seeing that happen.

So the young daughter was traumatized and depressed. And then he erased her memory and then she was right back to normal. And I started thinking a lot about that in terms of my life and what trauma means and what all of the negative experiences mean for us in our lives.

Is the point to have a life without them and to erase them or if we have the choice, do we use them as part of our life experience.

And the truth is we do have that choice. We have the choice whether to push it away and ignore it and not process it. And we have the choice to move towards it and utilize it.

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