This is a podcast interview (Wellness Force) with Josh Trent discussing trauma from a broad, historical, and somatic perspective. Trent reframes trauma away from an event-based, 'if this then that' model toward a lived, body-centered phenomenon—rooted in attachment, memory, and the body's stored experience—and introduces somatic experiencing as an approach to slowly and methodically address the body's ‘memory’ and restore balance.
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Trauma is just the word that we're using right now to describe this phenomenon. But the phenomenon has been happening as far back as we can trace recorded history. The mystics in India had a different name for it. I truly think that when they're speaking about attachment, they're talking about trauma. Our attachment to something, our attachment to the memory of the past, our attachment to the memory of the future, our inability to be with ourselves, to sit in stillness, to experience our bodies. Right. It's all the same thing. So what. What do we have to do? Slowly and methodically address the body's memory and help it to create a new form, a new shape, help it to discover itself. As soon as I notice that I'm out of balance, my body will bring me back into balance because it's natural. Will. Welcome to Wellness Force, man. Thanks, Josh. It has been a minute. We've been planning this for about six months and the universe provided today. I'm so excited to be your friend, to get to know you and to share your voice with this Wellness Forest community. We have a lot to explore. We've got a lot to get into. We got a lot to talk about, man. So people know you on online and social, you know, your Persona in this 3 3D world, in your meat suit with your psyche. Now, as somebody who's really specialized in trauma and. And something I experienced yesterday, which in real time, we're going to process a little bit today. And that is somatic experiencing, which is amazing because we're all experiencing it, but we may not know it. That's right. So this is the perfect jumping off point. Trauma is something that we all experience. That's right. It's capital T. It's lowercase T. That's right. But I think people get the definition mixed up and confused for some reason. So as we unpack all the layers of trauma and all the ways that you serve, how do you define trauma now? And has that definition changed since you began the journey? Yeah, you know, I'll start with has it changed? And then I'll define it 100%. My definition has changed over the years. When I first came into this work, how I saw trauma was what happened to somebody. I saw it as a category of events, all these different categories, different experiences. Car accidents, rape, abuse, alcoholism. I saw it as those particular things, and I thought that if somebody had those experiences, then that equaled trauma. Right. An if, then equation. Very simple, black and white. And what I've learned is that that is not the case at. It.
