TUYT 56

Amy Hoyt18min

Amy Hoyt

00:00

We believe in functional mental wellness, a holistic approach to mental health. We know that there's hope for those of us who have experienced trauma, even profound trauma and that's why we created the universe is your therapist podcast, we believe whether you call it God, the universe, source, unity or love that there is something much greater than us that conspires for our good, we envision a world of healing and connection, and we teach you simple but powerful practices that integrate your mind, body and spirit so that you can come home to your highest self and your truest identity. You are not broken, you are loved, and you can heal. My name is Amy Hoyt, and together with my sister, Lena, we will take you on a journey of healing and self discovery. Welcome back to another episode of the podcast today, we are really excited to address some of the top five questions we receive from clients in our program, the whole health lab, as well as potential clients and just friends on social media. So today's episode is the top five questions about trauma that we receive. The number one question we receive about trauma is what exactly is trauma,

Leina Hoyt, MFT, MA

01:17

there are a lot of definitions floating around out there. And basically, it's having an experience that overwhelms your nervous system. But it's also having an experience or a set of experiences that alters your sense of the world and your sense about yourself. And it has to do with feeling a sense of safety and has to do with feeling worthy of love or worthy of attention. That kind of thing.

Amy Hoyt

01:52

And we've hear a lot of terms about trauma. So I've heard. And of course, we talked about this in our program, but for our listeners, there's childhood trauma, there's complex trauma, there's PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What are the differences between the different types of traumas that you hear

Leina Hoyt, MFT, MA

02:16

when we talk about childhood trauma or complex trauma, we oftentimes can get the the two phrases mixed up, or the true terms mixed up. Childhood Trauma refers to things that have happened in our childhood, that are traumatic, it can be a one time event, or it can be something that has shown up in the relationship with our caregivers. And it affects the way that we form attachments and then informs the way we connect with others throughout the rest of our life. complex trauma occurs in childhood as well. And it is referencing the idea that somebody has had a series of like events happen over and over and over again, or a set of ongoing events that happens. And that doesn't allow the nervous system to recalibrate after it like a single event trauma.

Amy Hoyt

03:16

Oh, thank you. And then I know PTSD came about after the Vietnam War, that was post traumatic stress disorder that I saw in war post war research. And that comes largely out of Dr. Bessel Vander Kolk. And then I'm also aware that trauma can include a single event in adulthood, like a major car accident, or something that's very disturbing, you know, being for instance, robbed armed robbery. And so I think what's important for our listeners listeners to understand is that you can have a sustained pattern in childhood that is really dysfunctional, that's complex trauma, you can have something bad happened to you in childhood, that's childhood trauma. That's not necessarily a sustained complex pattern. You can have PTSD, where you're having symptoms after a traumatic event. Or you can simply have any event that leads to a trauma response where it alters your perspective of the world. And that can happen even in adulthood. Does that sum up what you would say is kind of how the terms are used right now?

Leina Hoyt, MFT, MA

04:32

Absolutely. And so we're not always talking about PTSD. When we talk about trauma. We're talking about having an experience or a set of experiences that has overwhelmed the nervous system. And now those experiences are stuck in our subconscious mind and they dictate our sense of ourselves or our sense of the world moving forward.

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