A brief reading from the post traumatic growth guidebook, honoring your instinctual body as a guide for healing.
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What is post-traumatic growth? Amazingly, there really is such a thing. You've probably heard of post-traumatic stress disorder, but some individuals manage to not only recover from a trauma but actually grow from it.
This video was developed to give a basic introduction and overview of how trauma and chronic stress affects our nervous system and how those effects impact our health and well-being.
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Traumatic childhood events like abuse and neglect can create dangerous levels of stress and derail healthy brain development, resulting in long-term effects on learning, behavior and health.
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Sonja Lyubomirsky talks about the different between Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth.
In celebration of Veterans Day, Talks at Google is honored to welcome Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D.
In this film, we hear from Dr. Gabor Mate, international expert on trauma, who explores the theme of trauma as disconnection from the self and why relationships are central to the prevention and recovery of trauma.
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