How to Stay Emotionally Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.6 • 140 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
"It Is a very basic, ancient understanding that emotions come and they go. And if we don't push them away, we don't fight them and we don't attach to them in a strong way, they tend to move through much more quickly." - Laurence Heller, PhD
In this special episode, our host Sarah is joined by Dr. Laurence Heller, creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) and Brad Kammer, NARM Training Director and Senior Faculty. As we face the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the trio reflects on how to come together in community to support each other in times of crisis. Faced with the need for physical distancing and isolation, it can be difficult to connect to the resources that we rely on to manage the stressors in our lives. Additionally, the fear and anxieties triggered by the unknown - our uncertain future - can create additional challenges for us all.
Dr. Heller and Brad Kammer share constructive advice for managing the powerful emotions triggered by the COVID-19 crisis. Feelings of fear, helplessness, uncertainty, and grief, valid during any crisis, are often overwhelming. What if, instead of avoiding them, we followed Dr. Heller's suggestion and allowed ourselves to fully experience these emotions? What if we gave ourselves the same compassion we show others and created space for self-reflection and self-compassion? "Emotions are not designed to be permanent," says Dr. Heller. "They only tend to stay permanent and fixed if we run away from them."
Recognizing that we're all in this together, the NARM Training Institute was created to support individuals, families and communities in facing the impacts of complex trauma, and provide effective strategies for navigating the fear, isolation and uncertainty during this challenging time for our world.
"The way that we show up in ourselves is really going to be the best model for them [children]] about how to navigate this really scary time." - Brad Kammer
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This episode was edited by The Creative Impostor Studios.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. Welcome to the Transforming Trauma Podcast, a complex trauma podcast through the |
| 0:11.5 | NARM Training Institute. My name is Sarah Bueno, and I am a psychotherapist here in Chicago, |
| 0:17.2 | and currently in NARM student. And I am so excited to share this podcast with you all. |
| 0:24.3 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. The Institute offers |
| 0:28.6 | NARM practitioner trainings for mental health professionals who are looking for advanced |
| 0:32.7 | training in complex post-traumatic stress disorder. The neuro-effective relational model is a cutting-edge, |
| 0:38.4 | innovative approach for resolving C-PTSD, addressing attachment, developmental, relational, |
| 0:44.2 | and intergenerational trauma. Well, welcome to transforming trauma. I am sitting here with Brad |
| 0:52.1 | Cammer and Dr. Lawrence Heller. And we have the opportunity to talk to |
| 0:57.4 | people about what's going on with the coronavirus. And I thought we could start this session like all the |
| 1:02.5 | others and ask Larry and Brad both, what do you want people to get out of this today? Well, I think |
| 1:08.6 | where I can be the most helpful is supporting people to look at different |
| 1:14.0 | ways to deal with the very powerful emotions that naturally get triggered in this kind of a situation |
| 1:20.6 | where there's so much uncertainty. And every day there's different kinds of uncertainty and we don't |
| 1:25.9 | know where this is going and we don't know. |
| 1:27.8 | So these kinds of situations where there's so much not knowing. |
| 1:32.1 | One is I want to acknowledge it's real in itself. |
| 1:34.8 | I mean, there's a certain existential threat here. |
| 1:38.0 | On the other hand, what we talk about specifically in Dharma's anxiety as opposed to fear, |
| 1:47.0 | those elements that are also brought up in us that are unresolved from our own history and, you know, developmental process |
| 1:53.0 | that then get projected onto these kinds of situations where there is a certain amount of |
| 1:59.0 | realistic fear that people are having and how to |
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