Ep 321: Sexual Abuse Signs, Trauma, Recovery and Healing with Ella McCrystal, Part 2
Crime Analyst
Laura Richards
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Trauma is not what happens to you, it's what happens inside you. |
| 0:04.0 | That's a good thing, by the way. |
| 0:07.0 | Because if trauma, in terms of what happened to me, as a Jewish infant under the Nazis, |
| 0:12.0 | if that was the trauma, I'll never be a person who wasn't a Jewish infant |
| 0:19.0 | other than the Nazis and during that period of genocide. |
| 0:22.6 | If trauma is the fact that you were abused as a child, you will never be a person who wasn't abused as a child. |
| 0:29.6 | Trauma can also be inflicted not by what happens to you, but what that doesn't happen, that should happen. |
| 0:35.6 | So that when your needs aren't met, that vacuum wound as well, even though you weren't overtly hurt, |
| 0:43.2 | you're still wounded by not having your essential human needs met. |
| 0:47.0 | But if that was the trauma of what happened to you, guess what? |
| 0:51.5 | It'll never unhappen. |
| 0:53.3 | But if trauma is what happened inside you, the wound |
| 0:55.8 | that you sustained, the meaning you made of it, the way you then came to believe certain things about |
| 1:02.4 | yourself or the world or other people, and if trauma was that disconnection from the authentic self, |
| 1:10.2 | well, guess what? Good news news that can be restored at any |
| 1:13.8 | moment so that's why Sharon when you talk about the the new view of trauma when we see it as |
| 1:22.4 | that wound as long as we see that way it's a wound that can be healed if we see it as a bunch |
| 1:27.3 | of things that happened that'll never unhappen. |
| 1:30.3 | But we don't have to, the biggest lesson for me, and when I continue to learn, |
| 1:35.3 | is that we don't have to allow it to define our lives, how we see ourselves, how we see the world, |
| 1:42.3 | how we relate to other people, how we relate the world, how we relate to other people, how we relate to possibility, |
| 1:47.2 | how we relate to even spiritual transformation. |
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