Uncovering Little t Trauma
Explore the concept of little t trauma and its impact on our emotional responses. Mel and Jesse discuss how trauma can manifest without a specific memory, shedding light on the importance of acknowledging and addressing these emotions.In this clip
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Healing Toolkit: Overcoming Childhood Trauma | The Mel Robbins Podcast
Related Questions
How do negative experiences, such as being told how we should feel at a young age or into adulthood, get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions?
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that process is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?