Today on the root cause medicine podcast. Trauma is pretty subjective, which means that it's up to the

individual to determine what was traumatic for them. Because when I use the word trauma, I describe

things like being overwhelmed, feeling like your life was in danger. And even not in a physical way,

sometimes it's our emotional, mental sense of safety is threatened in some way. And working

with more complex trauma, one of the things that I like to explain, too, is trauma isn't necessarily

always what happens to you. It's also what didn't happen for you. The absence of loving,

caring parents, for example, can be trauma. It's called attachment trauma. Hey, guys, we've got a really

special episode for you today from Lauren Rudolph. Lauren is a trauma therapist, and she specializes

in PTSD and complex trauma. I'm really excited to bring her to you today because trauma is a word

we're hearing a lot in the media, but I feel like we need somebody

to actually talk to us about the science behind what truly works to help people heal and set

people free from the effects of trauma so that they can go on to live full amazing lives.

Lauren is amazing at doing therapy for people with trauma, but she's also an incredible teacher.

I met her when I worked at Sonare today, a multi-location practice on the East Coast

that specializes in offering intensive outpatient therapy combined with functional medicine.

She helped develop the trauma-focused intensive groups at Cenaire,

and she currently oversees all programs and trainings as the director of program development.

In her private practice, she specializes in treating people with complex trauma and dissociative disorders,

including DID. She's passionate about using EMDR, egosate therapy, and clinical hypnosis in the treatment

of complex trauma. You're going to leave this conversation feeling like you learned a lot about trauma that you didn't know and that what you learned is actually going to help

you make some really concrete changes to heal from it fast and for good. Before we get started,

I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast. And that, of course,

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