Dr. Robert Whitfield says therapy surfaces unresolved trauma, flooding your body with cortisol and stress. You can't avoid it. Self-work to process that trauma is non-negotiable.
I always tell folks, Dr. Amy, that I'm not a psychologist, I'm not a psychiatrist, and I always just say like, you have to start working on yourself. And obviously you're describing this. I try to use it in a very, um, it's not even— I'm just trying to get them to think about it. Like, you have to think about these things because I'm not solving them. I'm actually going to, I'm going to make all the ugliness, all the trauma, all the stuff come right back. If you don't do something about it.
Right. And I think that's what most people don't understand. They're thinking we'll take it away. They're thinking that it will allow them to continue to avoid it and not realizing that now, like, it's just going to surface it.
Right. And with that surfacing, it's a lot of negative energy, a lot. Yeah, because I am the number one generator of cortisol that's on this call. I cause a lot of cortisol.
