Healing Trauma (Part 3): Getting Triggered (Why Can’t We Just Leave the Past in the Past?)

The Soul's Work Podcast

In this episode, Janice explores that oh-so-common experience of getting triggered in the present due to past experiences of trauma, and how the activation of our fight-flight-freeze response in these situations can make it super challenging to stay calm and objective.

She also discusses that we may have explicit memories of past traumas, but also implicit ones that we aren’t aware of consciously. And she shares why it can be useful to learn how to discern between experiences where there is an actual threat to our safety, experiences where there is a valid concern but an additional layer of past wounding, and experiences where safety is there but we are unable to feel safe.

This episode is part 3 of an ongoing series on healing trauma.

*Please note that Janice is not a trauma expert or therapist, and that this series shares about her one personal experience of learning about and healing trauma

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Pete Walker)
• Healing Developmental Trauma (Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre) (the NARM model)
• MINDBODY SEMINAR: Introduction to Somatic Psychotherapy and Embodied Communication (Dr. Aline LaPierre)
• Tribal Theory – Nurturing One's Nature online event (Certified Listener's Society) (Barbara Allyn)
• Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement, and Touch in Practice (Susan McConnell)
• @traumaawarecare on Instagram
• Irene Lyon