Unbroken With MC

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

John Kim talks to Dr. MC McDonald about her new book, Unbroken. We talk all things trauma - the fact that we don't get to adulthood without some exposure to trauma, what the most common misconceptions are regarding trauma, what a trigger actually is, and what healing can look like.

Unbroken starts off with a very simple idea: What if instead of seeing traumatic experience as that which breaks our spirit, we see it as that which proves our spirit cannot be broken?

With Unbroken, McDonald offers a radical reframing of how we understand trauma―and a profound new approach for healing. According to McDonald, trauma occurs whenever we experience something that shatters our structures of belief about the world and our place within it. When trauma occurs, our miraculous biological systems adapt to help us survive―and sometimes this creates a constellation of mysterious symptoms that persist long after the event. If we can see these initial adaptations as natural strength responses, we come away with a new path to healing. We must tend to our neurobiological systems while we grieve our shattered beliefs and find new meaning, peeling away layers of shame as we go.

You can PRE-ORDER a copy of Unbroken by Dr. MC McDonald HERE.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago
0:05.6	and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.
0:10.4	I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.4	because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.5	So MC I'm not gonna lie there's a little part of me that wants to do this on an
0:27.8	Instagram live because of the corrective experience, you know, that story of me getting hit by a motorcycle and then coming
0:38.9	back to the scene and doing, I feel a little bit of that and I just want to insert real quick for you MC as well as people
0:48.0	listening if they don't know.
0:51.0	Disclaimer about my podcast, its assembly is required, meaning the
0:56.5	uh, listener has to put some of our our conversations together and so, um so they will hopefully understand what we're talking about because we're going to get there this time.
1:09.0	But yeah, and then I thought about it. I was like, you know what, you're making it about you again, you know, what if it crashes like the last time and now you're now you know, you can't do it twice to someone but here we are and I'm actually glad that we're
1:28.7	doing it this way. Me too. I like the assembly required for some reason I thought you meant like some political assembly and I was like what John are you talking about?
1:37.0	I'm talking about nonlinear I'm talking about.
1:42.0	In a nonlinear I'm talking about. Yeah, three questions I'm going to ask you.
1:47.0	Okay.
1:48.0	And for people who are like, who the fuck is this guest?
1:52.0	We're going to get to it. doesn't feel I want to slow down I want to slow down and we're going to get to all of that we're going to go
1:58.2	Yeah gonna go deeper okay number one I this is called fill in the blanks.
2:04.7	Okay. I wish I could stop my pattern of.
2:08.8	Overworking.
2:13.0	Oh, okay.
2:15.0	Which I know that sounds like a cop out, but it really is a serious problem that I've really been digging in and trying to figure out for the past for many years and I've gotten a lot better but I can't figure it out.
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