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Episode 153 | Trauma with Aundi Kolber

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Published on 07/05/2018

Aundi Kobler is a therapist who specializes in helping people overcome trauma, especially in helping people understand how trauma is stored in the body differently than other memories. “According to leading researchers like Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine,” Kolber writes, “trauma occurs when a person’s natural threat response is activated in their body, but their ability to cope becomes overwhelmed and ultimately stuck in a hyper/hypo vigilant mode. Thus, the traumatic event(s) become “stuck” in a person’s body instead of being stored as a normal memory. This inability to properly integrate the event into the narrative of their life is what results in symptoms such as flashbacks, disturbing thoughts, physical ailments or emotional volatility.” This was such a fascinating conversation - both in terms of understanding bigger traumatic experiences but also smaller ones, which might h [...]

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