Overcoming our Childhood Traumatic Past and Reinventing our Future with Stephan Friedrich
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Stephan Friedrich is the founder of Knightlamp Consulting and Psychology, and is one of Australia's leading proponents of trauma-informed behavior support. His career spans over 30 years of work with young people with severe behavior in Australia and has included children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. He has assisted thousands of parents, foster carers and teachers in understanding and improving extremely challenging behaviors caused by early childhood adversity and infant trauma.
Today, Stephen Friedrich shares his journey of migrating from Colombia to Australia at a young age, highlighting the contrast between his unstable early life and the safety he found in his new home. He discusses how early experiences shape resilience and independence, explaining the impact of developmental trauma on a child's physiological and psychological development.
Larry then shares his own experiences with childhood trauma, and Stephen provides feedback on the importance of early positive influences and supportive relationships. He discusses the concept of intergenerational trauma and the need for fathers to address their trauma to prevent passing it on to their children. The episode concludes with advice for fathers on seeking help and creating a supportive environment for their children, emphasizing that healing and resilience are possible with the right support and self-awareness.
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| 0:00.0 | Though we might not be responsible for our childhood trauma, we are responsible for breaking the cycle and not letting it dictate our future. |
| 0:08.0 | This quote is important because it empowers us as individuals, as men, as husbands, as fathers to take control of our lives |
| 0:14.4 | despite our past traumas. It also acknowledges the pain of the past without |
| 0:18.9 | letting it define the future emphasizing our personal responsibility and power to change. |
| 0:24.8 | And by breaking the cycle, we can foster healing and create a healthier and more fulfilling |
| 0:30.3 | life for ourselves, for our families, and this perspective is crucial for |
| 0:34.7 | personal growth and resilience because it enables us as men, husbands, and fathers |
| 0:38.7 | to transform our adversity into strength. That is today's podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:51.0 | leaders of families, and leaders of The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 1:08.0 | We are here to change the world. |
| 1:10.0 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 1:12.0 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 1:13.0 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers, so no man goes to their grave with |
| 1:18.0 | regret. |
| 1:19.0 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 1:27.8 | We are the Dad Edge and we're here to change the game. Hey, what's up, gentlemen. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder, this podcast, this show and movement. |
| 1:52.0 | Hey, for all you guys who experienced any type of childhood trauma you know if you were abused |
| 1:57.8 | physically verbally emotionally I I know I was but hey you know what that is that is not a weakness you know it is it's actually a |
| 2:06.2 | strength because I've learned over the years this wasn't always so I used to be quite the victim to be honest. But I now view my |
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