Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how trauma rewires the brain into survival mode, making the world feel unsafe. Awareness, support from another person, and intentional steps can shift you toward post-traumatic growth by changing the internal narrative you've built around safety.
I would say, you know, moving, sort of fast forwarding for a second. I think one of the most helpful things in trauma and moving from trauma to ptsg, which is post traumatic growth, is really that sense of awareness is coming to an awareness maybe with the help of another, what has actually taken place, what's going on in my system and what are some of the things now that I have this awareness, steps I can take to begin to progressively move forward. And so what happens with trauma is the brain learns very, very quickly as a survival kind of an immature type mechanism is that the world becomes very dangerous and for whatever reasons, I'm not safe. And so the brain now comes to this conclusion based upon circumstances that it's not safe, therefore you're not safe. And what it starts to do is it begins to reorganize your world, its world around that belief, around that narrative. Now.
