How to Heal from Trauma: 4 Things That Can Help
In this episode of The BraveHearted Woman Podcast, let me recap the key insights from the recent conversation with Teresa Voza about overcoming trauma.
Teresa shares her journey from a panic attack at work to recovery, offering four essential tips for managing stress and burnout. Tune in for valuable insights and practical advice on healing and self-care!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - How to deal with trauma?
1:31 - Tip #1: Start Slow
1:41 - Tip #2: Be Aware
1:57 - Tip #3: Get Curious
2:25 - Tip #4: Start the Inquiry
Quotations:
"Start slow, just go soft, go slow, be gracious to yourself, and be compassionate to yourself."
"Be aware, like start paying attention. What's going on in my body right now? Do I feel some heat? Do I feel tightness? Do I feel that I'm clenching? Or do I feel some rapid heart rate?"
"Get curious. Why is this happening? What's the common denominator? Is there a person? Is there a smell? Is there an event? Is there a sensation? Is there some sort of circumstance that I saw this last time and I'm starting to see a pattern?"
"Start the inquiry. What do I need? What am I feeling? What might I be thinking about? What might I be remembering? Or what might I be afraid of?"
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Download the full transcript here.
Transcript
Hey, so I just got off doing a podcast and it made me think that I wanted to jump on here real quick and give you the four points that I learned today from my speaker, Teresa Voza.
We talked about trauma. We were talking about how at one point in her career, she collapsed in the office of her Fortune 500 company and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. It thought she was having a heart attack. But the truth was it was a massive panic attack and the doctor told her you are completely depleted and burned out. That started her process of saying, Hmm, I have to figure this thing out.
I went through the same thing. Although I didn't end up in the emergency room in an ambulance, I did end up in the emergency room. I thought I was having a heart attack. I was diagnosed with panic disorder and that was just it. Trapped trauma in my body, knocking and saying, Hey, when are you going to pay attention to us?
So I asked her, I said, Hey Teresa, what would you say to someone who's going through that? What would your advice be? Here's the advice. These four things.
First of all, start slow, just go soft, go slow, be gracious to yourself, and be compassionate to yourself. So go slow and then she just said, be aware, like start paying attention. What's going on in my body right now? Do I feel some heat? Okay. Do I feel tightness? Do I feel that I'm clenching? Or do I feel some rapid heart rate? Like what's going on in my body right now? Then, the third thing was just to get curious. Hmm. Curious. Why is this happening? What's the common denominator? Is there a person? Is there a smell? Is there an event? Is there a sensation? Is there some sort of circumstance that I saw this last time and I'm starting to see a pattern? So get curious. What are the events? What’s the stimuli around? And then fourth, just start the inquiry. What do I need? What am I feeling? What might I be thinking about? What might I be remembering? Or what might I be afraid of? So get curious and then start asking questions.
Thought that was really good today and I just wanted to share it with you. Okay, that's all!
