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What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.

When Grief and Trauma Meet

October 04, 2023 Julie Brown, David Kennedy, Red Keating Season 2 Episode 2
What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
When Grief and Trauma Meet
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What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
When Grief and Trauma Meet
Oct 04, 2023 Season 2 Episode 2
Julie Brown, David Kennedy, Red Keating

In this episode we have the privilege of learning and speaking from Dr MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, author of Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong—And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life.  
MC helps us understand the nature of trauma, how it lives in us and how it shows up in our nervous system and our lives. She makes the connection between how some of our grief experiences are both a grief AND trauma experience. We aren't broken because we experience trauma, it's our nervous system's way of protecting us through an unbearable experience. Many of us experience trauma and don't know it. 
Listen to this episode to help you hold yourself and others with more compassion and understanding.  

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In this episode we have the privilege of learning and speaking from Dr MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, author of Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong—And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life.  
MC helps us understand the nature of trauma, how it lives in us and how it shows up in our nervous system and our lives. She makes the connection between how some of our grief experiences are both a grief AND trauma experience. We aren't broken because we experience trauma, it's our nervous system's way of protecting us through an unbearable experience. Many of us experience trauma and don't know it. 
Listen to this episode to help you hold yourself and others with more compassion and understanding.