Thriving through trauma

Joining me to talk about trauma and how we can thrive despite, or perhaps because of the trauma we have endured is trauma specialist Lou Lebentz. Lou is founder of the group ‘Trauma Thrivers’. Lou’s mission is to make trauma therapy accessible to all and go beyond that to thriving in life. She has been a therapist specialising in trauma, eating disorders, addiction and EMDR for nearly 20 years and did a Ted Talk called ‘The sweet sanity of madness’ in 2015. We talk about what trauma is. Rather than it being as the result of a particular event, it is a nervous system response that gets held in the body, rather than being discharged. We start with my poem ‘Freeze’