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Description:

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m covering a very important topic that is not always addressed in everyday life. Today, I will discuss PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and trauma. A common misconception about trauma is that you have to experience war/combat in order to experience trauma. This is simply not true. We can encounter trauma in so many different ways, and traumatic experiences are not limited to the battlefield.

By the end of this episode, I want to help you understand what PTSD is, what can cause it, how to recognize it, how it can manifest, and review some real-life examples from my past. So many people may not know or recognize when they have been exposed to trauma throughout their life. My goal is to help clear that up. Be sure to listen to the entire episode and hopefully you can walk away empowered, with a greater understanding.

Coaching Session Goals:

• Understand how we encounter trauma in everyday life
• Identify symptoms of trauma
• Identify past experiences that may have been traumatic

Episode Timeline:

1. [00:02] Intro
2. [01:00] Misconceptions about Trauma
3. [02:02] PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) Definition
4. [02:48] Different Ways To Encounter Trauma
5. [03:44] How Do You Know Your Body is Stressed?
6. [06:05] Real life example #1 - Drive Bye
7. [07:17] Real life example #2 - Gun in a Treehouse
8. [10:17] Real life example #3 - Car Party
9. [12:36] Three Types of Trauma
10. [14:56] Trauma Symptomatology
11. [15:44] Hypervigilance
12. [18:39] Physical Symptoms
13. [21:07] Cognitive Symptoms
14. [25:19] Real life example #4 - Richmond
15. [34:40] Emotional Symptoms
16. [40:28] Self Help Skills and Tips

Standout Quotes:

[02:34] “When I'm exposed to something that's bad and trauma... meaning you can be the victim...You could be a witness of something happening to someone else. Or you can hear about it.”

[12:39] “These are things that are very small to some of us when we grow up. But those things can be ingrained in you, to then make you hyper-vigilant.”

[25:28] “What's normal to you in the hood is not normal to the norm.”

Resources:

PsychologyToday.com

BorisLHensonfoundation.org

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