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Hi everyone. Welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Dora here.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month and the launch of our new in-app collection

navigating trauma, we're sharing an extra episode with you this week, featuring Mindfulness

Teacher and world-renowned trauma expert David Trelebin. In this conversation, we explore

what it really means to practice mindfulness safely.

Meditation is often seen as a universal tool for well-being,

but it isn't always a one-size-fits-all approach,

especially for those who have experienced trauma.

In today's episode, we talk about what trauma is,

how it can show up in our meditation practice, and why simply being with it isn't always the answer.

We also explore the importance of choice, understanding your own capacity, and how to navigate

moments when mindfulness starts to feel overwhelming, so you can build a practice that truly

supports your healing. I hope you enjoy. Hi David. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for

having me. It's so great. I kind of knew the backstory, but I didn't know the Canadian piece. Yeah.

And now I have so many questions about you being a psych nurse.

Yeah. So yeah, I'm thrilled to dive in here. That's great. Thanks for all your work. Yes. I'm like, okay, I don't have to explain some of the words that I say as a Canadian. People are like, could you say that again? And I'm like, dang. all these different things that I thought were normal that were not.

But I'm so excited.

And I know I know you through your work, but for people that are unfamiliar, can you share who you are, what you do?

And why did you get started in this field?

What brought you to trauma-sensitive mindfulness?

What was actually in Vancouver? I was going to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,

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