#tiktoklive #livehighlights Trauma can’t be contained only addressed.

3 Jun 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

1:01

In this live‑highlight monologue, the speaker argues that trauma experienced at work does not stay confined to the workplace; it seeps into other areas of a person’s life. They explain that because work occupies a large portion of our daily existence, the stress and emotional wounds from professional environments transfer outward, affecting personal relationships and overall wellbeing. The speaker emphasizes that when individuals ‘shrink’ themselves at work—suppressing their true selves—they lose the ability to show up authentically outside of work. Authentic, unapologetic living requires confronting and addressing workplace trauma; otherwise, the habit of shrinking prevents genuine self‑expression in all life domains.

Chapters

believe that a lot of times people don't think that the trauma that they go through at work— because it is trauma— bleeds into any other part of their life. They just think that it just ends at work and it's just what they have to deal with at work. But it does hinder so many different parts of your life because work is so much of our lives, and we have to acknowledge that there is transference from the things and situations that we're dealing with at work. Because if you're really honest with yourself, if you shrink yourself at work, there is no way in hell you can show up fully, authentically, and out loud as yourself outside of work. There's just no way for you to do that. There's no way for you to flip that switch. Because once you flip that switch to be your most authentic and live fully out loud as you and do it unapologetically, there's no way you can go back to shrinking yourself.