Contained in this Episode 4 of Friday Cry Date, you’ll hear our host Kara Viatori interviewing Robert Cox, host of the podcast Mindful Recovery, contributing author on www.huffingtonpost.com, and trauma therapist in the Kansas City area.
We hear about Robert’s beginnings and inspirations as a therapist, his belief on working with so-believed “untreatable” personality disorders (narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, etc), his work with autistic clients, and a host of other topics. Those other topics discussed include:How the brain protects us by processing scary experiences in our emotional center (amygdala)How the body stores traumaEmotional releases after deep tissue/stretching work Cultural ideas of avoiding pain Beauty in our broken spaces within Cultural stigma around antidepressents How dopamine, SSRIs, drugs and serotonin function
You may want to refer to this image of the brain during our discussion of how it functions/processes trauma: 