Trauma

“And again, that's been largely overlooked by the therapy industrial complex that wants you to relive your trauma. No, no, no, no, no, no. You need to reframe and understand your trauma, understanding that you probably weren't the person who was suffering the m…”

“This is their idea that anything we do to get, anytime you yell at a kid that can traumatize a kid, that injury, emotional injury can be with them for a lifetime. It's not true. It's not what the best research has shown”

“Instead, we tell the kids the opposite. Your parents are divorced. You've had trauma. Let's talk about it. It's the worst thing we could do for a kid who'd been through something hard.”

“That even if you could take away the depression or the trauma or give somebody, you know, the perfect life and everything they wanted, once they've developed the disease of addiction, they have addiction, and if you don't intervene for that problem, it's typic…”

“The first and probably most devastating casualty of trauma is the ability or willingness to be vulnerable.”

“Ideas of trauma are important in psychology and psychiatry, but now trauma has expanded to mean just unpleasant experience.”

“You see a trend with a lot of like very successful entrepreneurs where almost always something very traumatic happened to them when they were young.”