Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

"You Must Be Out of Your Mind" Podcast EP10 clip2

18 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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Clip from the You Must Be Out of Your Mind podcast (EP10 clip2) featuring Dr. Don Wood discussing childhood trauma and recovery. Dr. Wood argues many people who struggle to stay on task or function are stuck emotionally at the age when they were traumatized ("a five year old or a six year old"). He links unaddressed childhood abuse to later problems such as substance addiction and learned helplessness, and advocates prevention and providing supportive opportunities ('a hand up, not a hand out') to help people rise.

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A lot of the people that we were just talking about who can't, you know, stay on task or, or be able to do those things are dealing with a lot of, in our experience, a lot of trauma. And that's one of the things that we do really well is help people who have had trauma because like you said, they get stuck as a five year old or a six year old. It's because they were so traumatized as a child and then they, as they're growing up, there's no real help for them. Everything is all teaching them how to live and manage and cope with it. And like you said earlier about the preventative, there's so many things that we could do to prevent this childhood abuse that's going on that is creating all the things that you're dealing with, with having these people, they get into drug addiction, they just give up and they're so beaten down and they don't see any way out. And what's great is if you could just give them that little hand up. Not a hand out, but a hand up, some people will rise up.