Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr Kurt Thompson.

My friend, the most beautiful man in the world, Pepper Sweeney.

I just don't even know what to do with you.

What to do with me?

Yes.

What do you mean?

We are here to discover and explore.

Dude, I am just to be truly known. I'm just calling it like I see. Did you have something you

want to say? I've said it. So we are we are completing our season six today with what we're calling questions and

reflections this season being on wisdom and Kurt thank you for leading us through this season.

I have discovered that I, you know, the one thing that I, that shows that maybe I am wiser than I thought

is I don't think I'm wise. So we do have some questions from you folks that you've sent in through social media and things.

And so I want to jump into those a little bit. The first question is someone is asking us if

you Kurt will talk about trauma healing wisdom and post-traumatic growth.

Well. Right out of the gate.

Well, you know, I think, one thing I would say about this is that trauma experienced in so many different ways, and we've talked about that in a previous season and I think

one of the things that is true when we find ourselves kind of discovering like oh my gosh there

are these things that have happened to me.

And now I'm aware of the symptoms, if you will, the symptoms I'm having in response to this.

And symptoms, that may not be the most helpful word, but, you know, it's the experiences that I have in my family of origin, when I, as an adult when I go back home in which I feel all kinds of things that make

me feel uncomfortable or it's what's coming up at my job or it's the thing I can all the neuropsychiatric things whether it's depression or anxiety all these things that happen and

when we start to kind of put

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