"Trauma is any experience encoded in terror"
~ Dr. Jody Carrington
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Dr. Jody passionately works with organizations and people to develop strategies for recontextualizing and integrating trauma. The top three insights Dr. Jody shares in this space are:
Trauma is best defined by any experience encoded in terror, which means we all internalize it differently. It's so important to change the conversation from "what is wrong with us" to "what happened to us".
Trauma is best defined by any experience encoded in terror, which means we all internalize it differently. It's so important to change the conversation from "what is wrong with us" to "what happened to us".
Anxiety and depression cannot kill you - but not talking about it might. Creating intentional strategies for engaging with humans who have and will experience trauma is necessary.
Operating from a trauma-integrated perspective means the way we structure our administrative policies and how we treat our employees reflects this understanding: you can't take away or punish anyone into healing. Rewriting most policies will be necessary to reflect a focus on regulating first and teaching, training, or educating second.
In short answer - absolutely. What becomes so critical to understand is that the body keeps the score. It is often futile to address trauma (experiences encoded in terror) without understanding how your body remembers the trauma. The best explaination always comes back to this: trauma is not what happens to you, it's what happens inside of you as a result of what happened to you. Having somewhere to make sense of that feeling is always the answer.
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