Episode Details

Dr. Laurie Nadel, a psychologist specializing in overcoming trauma, has helped people impacted by the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Sandy and, most recently, the mass shooting in Parkland, FL.

Today, Laurie joins us to talk about how to live inspired after our personal tragedies. Whether divorce, bankruptcy, a natural disaster or anything in between: A "trauma" is anything that leaves you feeling like you've lost your control, your safety or your identity.

My friends, we've all had challenges. Today's episode will directly help you overcome yours.

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• Dr. Laurie Nadel shared how she was able to better relate to her mother after learning about the Myers Briggs personality types.
• Dr. Laurie Nadel's first book was a 4-time bestseller + on Oprah's book club twice: Sixth Sense: The Whole-Brain Book of Intuition, Hunchies, Gut Feelings, and Their Place in Your Everyday Life
  • "This book changes lives, in terms of understanding how how you think and process who you are."
• Her most recent book came out in April 2018: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
  • "This is a tool for people in the midst of tragedy. Open it and something will pop out you can use for self care."
  • The 5 Gifts: humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, growth.
• Something like a school shooting or natural disaster, they rip away the fabric of what we thought normal was. When they occur, we have to find a way of balancing in the midst of emotional chaos for sometime. You can swipe it away when you see it on your screen, but when it happens to you in real life, you can't change the channel.
• At a certain point you're out of shock and can start to think about next week instead of just getting through the day.
• When we start to feel like we can get through a week is when we have the strength or enlarged capacity to connect with people as a result of what we've been through.
• Three Cycles of Loss (when you can't go back to who you were before the injury, car accident, bankruptcy, tragic event):
  1. Loss of control of your physical environment.
  2. Loss of safety, you may be emotionally fragile.
  3. Loss of identity / who you are now.
• For another "Live Inspired" take on this topic, check out Ep. #4 with Michaela Haas as she explores + explains: Post Traumatic Growth.

DR. LAURIE NADEL'S LIVE INSPIRED 7

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