Storytelling helps your brain make sense of what happened instead of just reacting to it. This reduces the emotional charge associated with the event and gives you a clearer, more cohesive understanding of it, helping your body feel safer and speeding up the healing process.

Storytelling helps your brain make sense of what happened instead of just reacting to it. This reduces the emotional charge associated with the event and gives you a clearer, more cohesive understanding of it, helping your body feel safer and speeding up the healing process.

Learning to protect our emotional well being during chaotic times is important, but it’s also important to not confuse emotional armor with emotional numbness. Emotional armor is a conscious, empowered response to life’s challenges. Emotional numbness is a shutdown; an unconscious defense mechanism that disconnects us from ourselves and others.

Shifting your perspective isn’t about denying difficulties or spiritual bypassing. It’s about choosing a mindset that empowers you rather than constricts you. By consciously reframing situations, you take control of your mindset and create an inner environment where healing and growth can thrive.

If companies are serious about creating workplaces that are truly inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, they must begin by honoring the core values they claim to stand for and evolving into trauma-informed organizations that treat employees at all levels of the organization with dignity and respect.

Rituals aren’t just for religious ceremonies. Top performers like CEOs, athletes, and creatives often have relied on rituals to anchor their mindset practices and prime their nervous system to sustain consistent excellencce. Establishing mindful rituals prepare and wire us for focus, clarity, and flow.

Unchecked vicarious trauma can lead to burnout, compassion fatigue, and even secondary traumatic stress. In addition to work performance, it can also affect your physical health, relationships, and overall sense of meaning.