How Unresolved Trauma Can Affect Your Whole Life #leadership #productivity #service

22 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Clegg (uploaded June 22, 2022) discussing how unresolved trauma shapes daily experience—especially for leaders—by keeping people in a chronic state of fear. The speaker explains that trauma drives a 'limbic hijack' where perception narrows, hearts close, and people operate from survival rather than higher-level reasoning and compassion.

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There are a lot of people who have experienced so much trauma in their life. Famous leaders, famous titans, or people that you know personally. They've experienced so much pain, so much loss, so much trauma that their daily normal is a state of fear. And because they're in a state of fear, they're living not in their higher part of their brain and their higher part of their humanity. They're living in constant limb hijack, which means their perception is narrow and their hearts are closed. They're just trying to feel safe.