– Okay, so I’m gonna share with you 00:03 one of my first big bugbears about trauma. 00:07 So, when we refer to trauma we talk about 00:12 possibly childhood trauma, severe emotional dysfunction, 00:15 things like PTSD. 00:18 There may be like, near-death experiences, 00:21 there may be significant grief, 00:23 there may be neglect as a child. 00:25 My personal, and I guess the viewpoint 00:28 that a lot of people share on trauma is, 00:31 trauma can be little micro-traumas. 00:33 So, trauma can be things that are built up 00:38 over a long period of time.

– So, have you ever had a pain, 00:04 been anxious, been stressed, been depressed, 00:07 and just been told to just stay positive, or be grateful? 00:11 Now, being grateful is a really awesome thing. 00:13 I do a gratitude journal. 00:14 I’m really grateful for lots of things in my life. 00:17 But I think that positivity 00:18 and happiness is just a rubbish metric, 00:22 and there’s a lot of writers who agree with this idea. 00:26 If you’re constantly pushing this positivity, 00:28 what you’re doing is you’re actually pushing 00:31 the crap further down into