Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (Mindfulness & Grief Podcast #1)

Mindfulness meditation is highly praised for helping people reduce physical, emotional, and psychological suffering. But when trauma is present, mindfulness needs to be handled with care, modified, or outright avoided. Heather Stang, author of "Mindfulness & Grief," interviews David A. Treleaven, Ph.D., author of "Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness," to gain a closer and deeper insight of the intersection of grief, trauma, and mindfulness. In doing so, we will gain a greater understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of mindfulness meditation, before we undertake our own practice. 

Reviews

As a survivor of a 25 Year physical and psychologically abusive marriage, I have been working to process my trauma. It is taking years and listening to this talk brought me to tears. So often it can feel like there is something wrong with me when I try to meditate and your discussion with David reinforces that this is not true. Thank you!

This conversation affirmed the trauma-sensitive mindfulness work that I have been doing individually with a coach. It also highlighted the importance of community in the coregulation and collective healing process. That feels like the largest gap to fill in my personal experience.

Specifically, I was considering how work became a coping mechanism for developmental trauma and emotional, social, and spiritual disconnection, but it became the source of trauma in moments of crisis where the need for care was met with a severing of all connections and financial self-sufficiency.

It made me wonder if there might be a need to focus on the collective trauma being experienced in all areas of artistic, creative, and design practice as humans are being made expendable by technology and artificial intelligence and authoritarian corporate culture.

Thank you loves this

Made a lot of sense to me, especially, Not one size fits all, around breath work.
Thank you.

Very interesting and important

Thank you for articulating some of what I’ve experienced. Very empowering and affirming. It was really helpful to learn about identifying your tolerance level for mindfulness on a continuum, then tweaking it to make it work for yourself. Hungry for more!

Thank-you! I wrote my Masters Thesis on Assessing Risk with Meditation in Psychotherapy... this was a nice surprise to listen to, validate, and reinforce my own beliefs in meditation and psychotherapy - depending on the individual!

Thank you for raising awareness on trauma within the context of these powerful healing tools and processes. It is so relieving to know this information is being put out there. 🙏🏽

Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 very clarifying. I had thought of forwarding this to a fellow griever who is dealing with a traumatic death of a loved one, yet the podcast does not really give practical tools.

Opened new thinking for me

Great talk and Nice voice! Thank you for sharing this! 💛