Episode 66: Complex Trauma with Gwynn Raimondi
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Trauma may not be what you think. We all have it and we all suffer from it to varying degrees — especially those who are in abusive relationships. There's so much trauma that comes along with abuse and also so much trauma that led us there in the first place.
In this week's episode, we're talking about complex trauma with Gwynn Raimondi. Gwynn defines complex trauma as anything that happened when we were young. Gwynn is a therapist specializing in complex trauma, grief, embodiment & intersections. We discuss the various ways trauma can show up and how it impacts relationships. Plus, Gwynn has an amazing approach to self-regulating your nervous system and how doing so can help you to reclaim your life.
Show Highlights
- Gwynn defines trauma and offers several different examples of trauma (6:39)
- Complex trauma: anything that happens when we were young (8:00)
- We discuss the trauma response and what is happening in our brains (10:00)
- How trauma impacts your relationships, plus Gwynn describes the four attachment styles (22:35)
- Body-centered mindfulness work and nervous-system regulation helps create a window of tolerance (15:11)
- Addiction is a coping mechanism (31:23)
- Collective relational trauma and how it impacts the way we relate to other people and impacts our relationships (43:22)
- How trauma affects our physical bodies (56:00)
Learn More About Gwynn Raimondi:
Gwynn is a therapist specializing in complex trauma, grief, embodiment & intersections. She is systems focused and explores how the greater world impacts and influences individuals, how the trauma we have experienced influences our relationships with others, ourselves, and the world, and how living in our current patriarchal, authoritarian, white supremacist culture exacerbates the lived experience and ancestral trauma that lives within us.
Resources & Links:
Gwynn's website
Gwynn on Instagram
Gwynn on Facebook
Gwynn on Medium
Gwynn's Facebook Group Trauma Informed Embodiment
The Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
Should I Stay or Should I Go Facebook Group
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of the |
| 0:23.5 | roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.0 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.5 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome back to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | I am your host, your Divorce Survival Guide, Kate Anthony. |
| 0:54.9 | You guys, times are cray. |
| 0:58.9 | Times be cray. |
| 1:00.9 | I don't know about you, but I'm really kind of struggling to work, to feel like focused on getting anything done. I'm noticing my focus is really, |
| 1:15.6 | really scattered. And I'm not being particularly productive. And I'm just trying to give myself |
| 1:23.2 | a little bit of a break on that. And I hope that if you are feeling that way, too, |
| 1:29.1 | you know, if you're, if you're homeschooling and working from home and panicking about a |
| 1:36.1 | pandemic, you know, that's a lot right there. I know that I'm just not, I kind of feel like I'm not really doing anything really well. |
| 1:46.9 | And I'm trying not to meet myself up about it because we're in a fucking pandemic. |
| 1:54.7 | Like, you know, if you're not going to be doing things well, now's, you know, |
| 1:59.0 | now's pretty much the time to give yourself a pass. |
| 2:03.0 | That's what I have to say to you. So today is our last episode in therapy months. Now, that's |
| 2:13.1 | not to say that we will not have future therapy months down the road, because I'm sure we will. |
| 2:19.5 | But I am super excited today to bring you my interview with my dear friend, Gwen Ramondi. |
| 2:26.8 | Gwen is a therapist, obviously, because she's rounding out therapy month. |
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