Trauma Integration

"Trauma is any experience encoded in terror"

~ Dr. Jody Carrington

Trauma is a psychological injury and just like a physical injury, we can only do so much to prevent it.
The time for trauma sensitive or trauma informed approaches have long passed. If you work with, lead, or love humans who have experienced trauma, it is critical that we understand the importance of trauma integration in our work. The sooner and more comprehensively we respond our traumas, the greater the healing outcomes will be.

Our focus

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:

1
The body keeps the score

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".

2
You can't heal alone

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".

3
Engage with intention

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.

Frequently asked questions

What does it mean to be trauma-integrated?

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.

Is it possible to fully heal from traumatic experiences, PTSD, C-PTSD?

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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