How To Heal From Childhood Trauma & Build Emotional Intelligence | Dr. Marc Brackett

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Dr. Marc Brackett survived childhood sexual abuse and became a pariah in his community, but one uncle's simple question—"How are you feeling?"—changed everything. This is the story of how trauma can become purpose, and why accomplishing your dreams means nothing if you haven't learned to be at ease with yourself.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.4	Going through the sexual abuse that you experienced for many years as a kid,
0:17.1	how do you feel like that shaped your nervous system as an adult?
0:20.4	And when did you feel like you were able to start processing the shame or guilt or fear or
0:27.2	insecurity around that to feel like you had a healthier nervous system and a better relationship
0:31.7	with all the parts of you?
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.8	Well, it was tough because I was a precocious kid and when at 11 when i disclosed it um
0:42.8	like any parents my mother you know had a breakdown she could not believe that her friend was doing
0:48.0	this to me oh and my father got a bat and went to kill the man oh my gosh and luckily he didn't do
0:53.2	that oh um uh he was arrested um got a bat and went to kill the man. Oh my gosh. And luckily he didn't do that. Oh.
0:54.5	He was arrested.
0:58.5	And it was a long case.
1:00.0	Unfortunately, it was back in the 1980s.
1:03.0	And unfortunately, we found that he had abused cousins of children.
1:08.0	And then stupidly, my parents had a friend who was a psychiatrist and he was writing a book on pedophilia and I went on television with him, which was the worst decision anybody could have made because I became, you know, the pariah, you know, of people, meaning that my school found out about it and the teachers
1:30.2	found out about it.
1:30.9	It's tough.
1:31.5	Parents would say things.
1:32.3	Don't play with Mark.
1:33.1	And he's kind of like damaged goods.
1:34.9	Oh, man.
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