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Back to EpisodesS6 E23 Your Brain Is Stuck. He Knows How To Free It with Guest Daniel Sundahl
Description
Daniel Sundahl ran calls for twenty years. As a career firefighter and advanced care paramedic in Alberta, Canada, he saw what the job builds in you — and what it quietly destroys. He didn't leave the profession when it got hard. He went deeper into it, earning credentials as a Registered Counselling Therapist and Trauma Specialist, and then wrote a book about what he learned.
UnStuck — now a bestseller — is a roadmap built specifically for people who've been trained to suppress, push through, and move on. In this episode, DanSun breaks down the Emotional Diagnostic Tool (EDT), explains why the Default Mode Network makes boredom dangerous for first responders, and lays out a clinical framework for moving from reaction to response.
This is the conversation the academy never gave you.
Topics covered:
The neuroscience of trauma response · Why suppression isn't strength · The EDT framework · Boredom, the Default Mode Network, and harmful coping · Post-traumatic growth vs. post-traumatic stress · Building a lasting foundation of inner peace
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