Healing Trauma As It Shows Up with Dr. Taryn Marie
“We’re not responsible for what happened to us. We are responsible for our own healing.”
REMINDER: DON’T GLOSS OVER THE MESSY PARTS.
Have you ever felt like you had finally healed from a deeply traumatic wound, only to have those same issues brought to the forefront again?
When this happened, did you say to yourself “I thought I was over this? I should be over this.”?
‘Should’, when used in the context of lamenting where we are emotionally compared to where we thought we’d be, or wished we could be, is a word of guilt, regret, and shame. ‘Should’ automatically says we believe things should be different than they are.
We do ourselves & our journey such a disservice when we use ‘should’ statements to judge our progress.
Development, growth, and healing don’t occur in a ‘J’ curve. It’s not a steady climb back up to your original state of homeostasis. At least, it certainly hasn't been for me.
There are traumas & challenges that I'm still healing from. I felt it was time to share some of these with you, in the spirit of authenticity, community, and truth.
In this episode of Flourish or Fold (my first solo episode!), I share perhaps the most monumental story of resilience of my life; my own.
I have chosen to lay my darkest truths, deepest traumas, and most profound challenges bare in the hopes that it reaches someone who needs to hear it. Someone who needs to hear the messy, scary, unpolished parts of resilience. Behind the carefully filtered bits & pieces of people's lives we see on social media & hear on the news, we're all just human.
As much as I wouldn’t wish some of the things I have experienced on anyone, I do hope that by sharing the experiences that have shaped me, I can offer the knowledge that you're not alone, you're not broken, and what happened to you is not your fault.
Remember: You are safe. You are loved. You are seen.💜
On the episode, we talk about:
What resilience means to Dr. Taryn (2:19)
How breaking down abandonment can aid us in our journey (7:21)
How Dr. Taryn has managed different traumatic events from her life (18:30)
The importance of self-dialogue in digesting these events (26:24)
How managing Post Traumatic Stress as normative and not a disorder can help (31:13)
How her dog helped her to manage PTS (36:23)
The steps to unlayering the layers (42:52)
About Dr. Taryn Marie
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