How Do We Process Traumatic Memories?

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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“We are all meant to feel alive and to feel powerful,” says Peter A. Levine, PhD. “That’s what being a human is.” The psychologist and author of Trauma and Memory joins Elise Loehnen to talk about how trauma lives in the body and how it can work its way out. We learn some of Levine’s favorite strategies for energetic movement, like skipping and chanting. He says the key to moving trauma out of the body is “bringing the energy up and then letting the energy settle.” He teaches us a sound exercise that helps move energy through the body and ease stress. Levine explains the difference between memory and traumatic memory, and how recovering—and processing—traumatic memories might help us heal. “All trauma shuts down our vital force,” says Levine. But when we begin to understand how to process our pain, we can free ourselves from shame and disembodiment—and find our way back to empowerment. (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't hold anything too tightly. Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the
0:10.6	intention of real truth for you, and then let it go. For me our soul is like it's
0:16.8	unbound, it's limitless, but we will use words to limit ourselves. When people
0:23.2	stop believing that somebody's got your back or Superman's coming we turn to
0:28.9	ourselves and that's where you become empowered. Courageous participation attracts
0:35.3	positive things. I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. This is the Goop podcast, bringing together
0:42.0	thought leaders, culture changers, creatives, founders and CEOs, scientists,
0:47.6	doctors, healers and seekers, here to start conversations because simply asking
0:53.1	questions and listening has the power to change the way we see the world.
0:57.6	Today is no exception. I'll let Elise fill you in on her extraordinary guest.
1:03.5	All right, over to Elise.
1:06.6	Today's guest is Peter Levine. Dr. Peter Levine is the founder of the Sematic Experience
1:13.0	Trauma Institute. He's worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the
1:17.9	developer of the Sematic Experiencing Method. He's also the author of several books on trauma,
1:24.6	including trauma and memory, freedom from pain, in an unspoken voice, and waking the tiger.
1:32.2	Today, Levine and I are talking about the incredibly powerful way trauma lives on in the body
1:37.2	and how we can learn to release it. He explains the importance of energetic movement and how to
1:42.3	listen to what our bodies are telling us, practices like skipping and making sounds are hugely
1:47.5	beneficial. We talk a lot about recovering old memories and how to process this information
1:53.0	in a healthy way and whether you can actually trust that they're real and whether that's important.
2:00.0	He leads us through some sound exercises that can follow along with and he even guides me through
2:04.7	processing some of my own past traumas. Levine explains that trauma shuts down our vital forces,
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