Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How do you think we heal trauma if we don't have the resources to go to therapy or do workshops or whatever may be even if we do have resources, we don't have the courage to put ourselves out there.

So the first thing is, recognizing that you actually experience trauma.

I am a huge proponent, as so many people are,

of widening the definition.

Up until about five years ago,

most of us thought that trauma just meant,

okay, you were in active duty, or you were in a huge

accident or incident that was highly traumatic, or you that you've

can have a parent that drinks like crazy and you

brace at 5 o'clock because you know they're coming home. You could have been abandoned

by a parent or have a parent that was mentally ill or have a parent that was so on your

ass because they wanted you to be a pro football player and so you were constantly on edge.

It's when your nervous system fires up to a state of alert that now gets programmed into your body as a response

There's a reason why so many couples at five o'clock at night start bickering and it has to do with the fact that at five o'clock is typically when a lot of parents 20 years ago were coming home from work.

And that's when the arguing would start.

And so what happens is as a kid, you're now in a state where you're on edge. I see you rocking in your chair.

Wow, that's crazy. Well, I mean I just remember there's a lot of good things that usually

happen to our childhood, but we just seem to remember a lot of the bad stuff and it's because it's

you know why right your mind is wired in a way to prioritize the negative as a means to keep your ass safe from not experience.

Correct.

Which is why you got to work on your positive mindset because your mind defaults to negative so

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