126. Healing from Trauma with Dr. Maria Colon-Gonzalez

Episode Summary

The pain of your past might still be alive in your body and influencing your health. Your body tells a story, and you can rewrite the narrative. Dr. María is a conventionally trained physician who recognized that there was a gap in her training. Her patients were struggling with the effects of earlier emotional trauma and she was never taught how to help them beyond prescribing a pill.

 

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Key Takeaways To Tune In For

• [1:20] How did Dr. Maria get into this area of study

• [3:03] Learning to think outside the box

• [4:12] How to recognize emotional trauma

• [9:00] How people process trauma

• [12:13] How habits help you deal with trauma

• [13:02] How Dr. Maria’s approach helps patients

• [16:26] Helping patients understand the process

• [20:34]What is trauma therapy 

• [23:55] Working with patients who have suffered from trauma

• [27:40] How to move in a healthy direction toward healing

• [31:30] All about Dr. Maria’s book

• [34:44] Where to learn more

Resources talked about in this episode

Websites: 

www.saludRevisited.com; 

www.shineMD.net

Social media handles 

Follow FB and IG: @MDwrite2heal

Follow FB and IG: @saludRevisited

Questionnaire: Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire for Adults

Books:

1. Healing the Wounds of Medicine: Stories and Journaling for Physicians
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
3. When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection