Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry ON: Healing From Childhood Trauma And Becoming Self Aware, Confident Adults

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business

4.7 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry joined Jay Shetty in their first ever virtual book tour event for the recently released book they co-authored, What Happened to You? We talk about how they are redefining childhood trauma, why experiences at a young age mold our adult life, and finding rhythm and balance to start healing yourself. Oprah is an accomplished author, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Dr. Bruce Perry is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, currently the senior fellow of the Child Trauma Academy in Houston, Texas and today, we will find out “What happened to you” What We Discuss with Oprah and Dr. Perry: 00:00 Intro 02:24 Meeting Dr. Bruce Perry and the journey towards understanding “What Happened to You” 05:57 Commonly misunderstood concept about trauma 09:06 Going beyond success to heal your trauma 11:05 The younger the children, the more influence you have on who they become 12:24 Oprah on Fast Five 19:05 Switch from “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” 24:13 Life-long study on child trauma and how it started 27:52 The connection between childhood experience and adulthood 32:53 What should parents do differently to express love to their children? 41:27 Finding the time to create a rhythm and balance 46:24 Misconceptions about the stress response system that leads to trauma 50:14 Neglect is as toxic as trauma 53:26 Reaching an understanding so can process your pain and anger 01:06:39 The difference between coping and healing Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: What Happened to You? The Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah Winfrey | Facebook Oprah Winfrey | Twitter Dr. Bruce Perry | Twitter Dr. Bruce Perry | Website Dr. Bruce Perry | Books Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to on purpose, the number one health podcast in the world.
0:04.6	Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.
0:10.4	And I am just honored, humbled and grateful today because I have the honor of speaking with
0:16.1	the one and only Oprah Winfrey, the person who's inspired me to start this podcast, to have the
0:22.1	conversations that I get to have every single day and inspired me to believe that wisdom truly
0:28.5	can be viral, it can be contagious, it can truly change people's lives. So I'm excited for you to
0:34.3	hear more from her and Dr. Perry in a moment, but we got to chat to Oprah just before this wonderful
0:40.8	book tour event we did. And so Oprah, welcome to on purpose. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
0:46.6	I am excited. I did not know that I inspired you for this. I did not. I had no idea. I've always
0:52.6	wanted to tell you and I'm glad I get to tell you in this way. I grew up watching you and you made
0:58.0	me believe that conversations about consciousness and purpose could reach every person on the planet.
1:05.6	And that gave me so much confidence as a young man that this was the work that was so deeply
1:10.8	needed. And so thank you so much. Well, look at what I did. Who knew that? Who knew that? You know,
1:16.8	my angel who said to me years ago when I'd come back from doing my school in South Africa,
1:22.0	the opening of the school and I was she was unable to attend. So I came directly from South Africa
1:27.6	to my house, Jay. And I was saying at the kitchen table and she was teaching you how to make this
1:31.6	gets. And I said, Oh, my other school's going to be so that school's going to be my legacy. It's
1:35.7	going to be incredible. And she said, you have no idea what your legacy is going to be because your
1:41.6	legacy is every life you touch. Your legacy isn't one thing. Your legacy is everybody who was moved
1:48.8	who watched your show, who went back to school, who got out of a domestic violent relationship,
1:54.9	who changed the way they saw things. And so now I'm looking at you, Jay Shetty, a part of my legacy.
2:04.1	That's the most wonderful and beautiful thing to be a part of. I'm so humbled and I meant
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