Trauma Expert: Why We Celebrate Weakness Instead of Strength - Mark Walsh
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Mark Walsh is an embodiment coach and trauma educator. He is the Founder of Embodiment Unlimited and hosts The Embodiment Podcast and The Embodiment Channel on YouTube. He has taught NGOs, police officers, the NHS and several militaries, working in over 40 countries and across multiple war zones including, most recently, Ukraine.
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00:00 Intro
01:34 Mark’s Background
05:45 What is Trauma?
07:15 The Politicisation of Psychology
09:24 Is Trauma Hardwired?
11:18 Symptoms of Trauma
15:49 Fixing Yourself & Not The World
17:59 Sponsor Message: Manscaped
19:22 The Glamourisation of Trauma
22:16 How Humour Can Relieve Trauma
24:42 The Impact of Social Media
30:57 How Internet Culture Creeps in to Real Life
36:39 The Experience of Working in a Warzone
42:58 Why Do Some People Find Warzones Addictive?
44:24 What Russia is Doing in Ukraine
48:28 Atrocities Across Europe
52:09 Why is Russia the Way it is?
57:58 Pursuing Trauma
1:01:59 The Impersonation of Strength Vs Real Strength
1:04:50 What Does it Mean to Be Weak?
1:09:15 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?
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| 0:25.0 | We've developed this culture where the victim has almost become sacred. |
| 0:33.5 | So there's a sort of supply and demand issue with trauma |
| 0:36.6 | that everybody in a way wants to be traumatized. |
| 0:39.7 | And you guys have talked a lot about activists |
| 0:41.6 | and people who are kind of you know they're |
| 0:42.9 | hypervigilant a lot of the time they're looking for something that's hurt |
| 0:46.5 | them they're looking in a paranoid kind of way it's go you must be a racist you must be |
| 0:51.9 | a sexist it's not the only thing that's going on, but one of the things that's going on is that people have been hurt, they've been abused, and they have come to see the world as a threatening place and they're looking for threat everywhere. |
| 1:05.0 | So, you know, victim is the opposite of agency, it's the opposite of healing. |
| 1:09.0 | I think one of the big problems in our society is that we don't have a way to be good and we need that and it's almost a very |
| 1:16.8 | old-fashioned idea to talk about ethics and virtue and morality but we need that as people we need a way to be good. |
| 1:23.0 | And in the absence of that, people will adopt whatever they're offered, |
| 1:26.0 | which may be a good consumer or a good social justice person, |
| 1:30.0 | it's like, all you have to do to be good is this, |
| 1:32.0 | is say this thing on social media. |
| 1:34.0 | All right, so it offers people a cheap and easy way to be good. |
| 1:38.0 | That would pretend that strength is a vice and weakness is a virtue and it's not. Hello and it's not. Hello and welcome to |
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