Redefining Trauma
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John and Dr. MC McDonald redefine trauma. They talk about what trauma is and isn't, examples of different types of trauma, how trauma rewires the brain, and what steps you can take to start healing your trauma.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:18.8 | So we're going to start with the definition of trauma. |
| 0:26.0 | Dun-da. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, what is trauma? |
| 0:29.0 | So one of the reasons that I'm here on this earth I believe is to help us redefine trauma. |
| 0:35.4 | Because for 150 years of clinical study we've been looking at which kinds of events count |
| 0:40.3 | as trauma and which do not. And the problem with that is that it doesn't |
| 0:44.2 | take into account the person living through it and so the definition that I use in |
| 0:48.5 | my work is really simple you have trauma anytime you have an unbearable emotional |
| 0:54.7 | experience that lacks a relational home. So unbearable emotional |
| 1:00.6 | experience that lacks a relational home. |
| 1:02.7 | So using the ice, would that? |
| 1:04.7 | The unbearable? |
| 1:05.7 | Yes. |
| 1:06.7 | So potentially, right, you're giving yourself this really extreme experience, you're having these |
| 1:11.3 | emotions come up, except we had this beautiful |
| 1:15.3 | relational home set up by Sarah's beginning and then also the fact that we were |
| 1:19.6 | all around each other sharing in that experience so that we could situate it because otherwise |
| 1:27.6 | you're just in the extreme without the relational home and you have no one you |
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