Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Trauma Expert explains why prediction creates safety #traumahealing # #podcast #brainhealth

22 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a podcast/video in which Josh Trent and a trauma expert explain that the brain needs prediction to feel safe; when altered by trauma it replays events to avoid being surprised again, and survival mechanisms (used at the time) make it hard for people to sit with the full depth of the altered experience—this complicates and lengthens healing.

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If the brain can't predict, it can't be safe. And so therefore whatever altered us, the brain will keep replaying as a mechanism to make sure we're not taken off guard again. And that's where people do seek other things that almost mimic or they, they tap into.
It is like the beginning point for healing, but it just exacerbates the time it takes to heal.
So your brain feels we're doing it.
In a safe way.
Yes, but we're not actually really addressing the root and sitting with it. And I think as humans, it's really hard to feel almost brokenness of something that altered.
Us that much to really feel it to the.
Depth feel it. And I think people are afraid to because when something like that happens, you have to survive. So those survival mechanisms turn on, of.
Course, because.
In that moment and falling after, you might not make it if you don't just survive.