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Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the podcast that gently guides you towards ideas you might not have thought to consider before.

I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Gabby Bernstein.

There are smarty traumas and big T-tramas and they all have effect on our life.

Not everyone's going to have a dissociated memory but they definitely have an experience that they have tucked under lock and key and just said no way I'm not touching that.

I'm going to build up all these other protection mechanisms and all these different parts of myself to numb and push down those experiences and fears and memories and things I never want to touch again.

We can't judge or shame or blame the parts of ourselves that have been so extreme.

They have actually been protecting us.

Gabby is a New York Times bestselling author, an international speaker and in her own words a spiritual junkie.

She came on the podcast back in 2020 and since then we've really struck up quite a beautiful friendship which I will boast about somewhat.

We've always snowed sure we text sometimes we even FaceTime lucky me.

Those who knew Gabby always thought of her as being high achieving, high functioning, the world saw her commanding stages and publishing eight books but now she's written a ninth book Happy Days, a guided path from trauma to profound freedom and in a piece which lays bare the trauma she was experiencing behind closed doors.

In writing the book she realised that being vulnerable is our greatest strength.

We talked a lot about trauma and the effect it can have on our memories. We talked about internal family systems therapy which is something Gabby is now trained in and Gabby actually did a bit of that therapy on me during this conversation which wasn't planned.

I wasn't expecting it but you know me and game for anything so I went with it and I found it deeply interesting and actually really helpful as well.

We also talked about EMDR therapy. I hope you'll find from this episode that there are so many different types of therapies and you won't relate to all of them. That's absolutely cool. That is normal but it's worth exploring them to see if there is one out there for you.

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