Peter Levine - The Many Sides Of Trauma

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Connor Beaton

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Talking points: trauma This was an honor. The word trauma gets thrown around a lot these days, so it's important to get back to basics and really sink into what's going on and why. After all, this is humanity we're talking about, and we're nothing if not complex. Peter is a legend in therapy circles for his groundbreaking work in somatic education and trauma work, so we dug into many of the different (and unusual) things something like trauma brings to the table. Both Peter and I encourage you to listen WITH someone! (00:00:00) - Peter’s definition of trauma and how it affects the body (00:07:27) - Peter demonstrates a somatic exercise to help release trauma (00:13:14) - Do men and women experience and handle trauma differently? (00:21:40) - On how trauma needs witnessing to heal, and Peter’s experience with active imagination (00:34:14) - Navigating the almost mystical side of healing (00:39:45) - Why the tiger? (00:43:27) - How can men work in a healthy way with anger, and how betrayal can impact how someone expresses themselves (00:49:08) - The main tool to help process trauma Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education, dedicated to Community Outreach and Post-Advanced Somatic Experiencing® Training, and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Mills College; Antioch University; the California Institute of Integral Studies; and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. His work has been taught to over 30,000 therapists in over 42 countries. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages); In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past. Connect with Peter -Website: https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/ -New book: An Autobiography of Trauma: https://books.innertraditions.com/autobiography-of-trauma/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpeteralevine/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peteralevinephd/ *** This episode is brought to you by Henson Shaving. Genuinely love these guys and their product because they've made my shaving experience actually enjoyable! Go to https://hensonshaving.com/mantalks to get two years worth of free blades with your new razor. Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right. I have to say Dr. Levine to start, just out of respect. I got to say, I know I asked
0:16.1	you before. I was like, I doesn't feel right. I got to say it once just to get it, get it there.
0:22.0	But thank you so much for joining me on this show. This is a real honor and a pleasure.
0:25.7	Yeah. So let's let's begin. I want to just start high level and we'll see where all this takes us as we get into the weeds.
0:33.1	But let's just start with the defining of trauma for you. How would you define trauma? And maybe why do you
0:41.3	think it's become such a prominent aspect of our modern conversation? Yeah, okay, those are interesting
0:45.9	questions. Okay. You know, when I started developing my work, which is called somatic experiencing,
0:52.3	it was in the mid, in the mid to late 60s.
0:55.5	And I was fortunate that I didn't yet know the definition of trauma as PTSD.
1:01.6	That was another 12, 13 years in the future.
1:05.0	So I didn't know that trauma was supposedly a brain disorder,
1:09.3	maybe even a brain disease, that at best can be
1:12.8	managed with medication and was helping people change their negative thoughts.
1:18.6	And so my discovery was that trauma is something that happens in the body.
1:23.5	Well, first, let me say something about trauma.
1:26.2	So trauma is really from the Latin, which means wound or injury.
1:33.5	And I look at trauma in that way, not as the diagnostic category of PTSD.
1:40.2	And most all of us have some kind of wounding that's affecting our lives, that's affecting our emotional well-being, that's affecting our relationships, that's affecting all parts of our lives.
1:52.0	And so in developing somatic experiencing, really look at what some of those injuries look like.
2:03.3	And most importantly, of course, how could they be healed? So that's really where I started, is really looking in a more broad overall sense
2:10.3	of trauma as an injury, as a wound, which means we all have injuries and wounds. And they all
2:15.3	affect us to different degree. and it doesn't have to
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