Hi there. Welcome to the Mathias your Barker podcast. My name is Mathias. I'm a

psychotherapist, research book in Washington. This podcast about mental health and

moving towards what's meaningful even despite hardship. Today we're talking about

trauma and specifically the connection between motivation and trauma and we'll

also be looking at things in the adverse childhood experience research and

what that is just you kind of have a heads up and nowhere we're going and all

this is the connection between the adverse experiences we had as kids, the

trauma we experience as kids and the potential health outcomes that could be

a result. People were doing a lot of research looking at the correlation between

those two things and there's some really insightful research in that and so I

don't want anyone though to feel like this is going to be a triggering

podcast that I'm not asking you to bring up any sort of like stories or

experiences that you had as a kid outside of the periphery like checking a

box if something did or didn't happen to you and so you don't really even have

to participate in that section of this podcast if you don't want to, don't feel

bad about that. You can just listen to the research in a more almost analytical

way kind of more detached if that doesn't feel completely safe and if there was a

moment in the podcast where you started feeling a little bit uncomfortable or

a little nervous it would be good to take a pause and maybe go on a walk, take

some breaths, 30 minutes to an hour is typically a good you know time if you

notice like your heart is racing or you're starting to sweat or you're

starting to get really kind of antsy and nervous you start to feel almost

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