Cohen: The best coping mechanism in severe trauma is action, not emotion
Maayan Cohen · On the ground in Israel (with Hello Heart’s Maayan Cohen) | Masters of Scale · Oct 20, 2023 · at 11:22
Hello Heart CEO Maayan Cohen explains how consulting a trauma expert shaped her approach to supporting employees in Tel Aviv following the October 2023 attacks.
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“When you're going through something so severe, the best coping is actually to do and not just sit at home, take a step back and think about your emotions. Because if you do that, the horrors that we just witnessed are so overwhelming that a human soul can't contain them. So you have to move people from emotions to actions.”
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