EP 56 – What Is Trauma? with Dr. Adriana Popescu

Kaleidoscope of Possibilities

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/u1YzNN4shzk

What is trauma?

How does trauma impact us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?

How can we rise like a Phoenix from the ashes of our traumatic experiences to heal, grow, and change the world?

Don’t miss this new and exciting episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health in which Dr. Adriana Popescu is the featured guest on her own show, talking about a subject most near and dear to her heart: trauma.

You will hear about how Dr. Popescu’s personal and professional experiences inspired her to seek greater possibilities for healing trauma and ultimately led her to create Firebird Healing.

In this episode:

• Inspirations
• Firebird Healing launch
• Adriana’s family and ancestral trauma
• Choosing this path
• Post-traumatic growth
• Trauma defined
• Big T versus little t traumas
• Vicarious traumatization
• Long-term impact of trauma
• Self-care
• Myths and misconceptions about trauma
• The phoenix bird
• Tools and approaches to healing trauma
• Firebird offerings
• Healing from trauma and addiction
• Leaders in the field of trauma healing
• The science of trauma
• Fight, flight, freeze response
• Nurses, veterans, and front-line workers and trauma

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Adriana’s Website: https://adrianapopescu.org

Firebird Website: https://firebird-healing.com

Dr. Adriana’s Mailing List: https://adrianapopescu.org/

Healing from Trauma & Addiction workshop with TJ and Dr. Adriana: https://www.firebird-healing.com/trauma-addiction

Conscious Recovery: https://consciousrecovery.com/

Avery Lane: http://www.averylanewomensrehab.com

Nurses project: https://sites.google.com/nursingproject.org/nursing-project/home

“We really are impacted physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually when we experience a traumatic event.” – Dr. Adriana

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About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, author, speaker and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.

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