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This week's guest is Wendy D'Andrea, a professor of psychology at The New School in New York, where she specializes in trauma and psychobiology. She also works with Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score) at The Trauma Research Foundation as its Chief Science Officer.
Wendy's career began early, working with sexual assault survivors. She has gone on to become a researcher of extraordinary breath, having studied widely across the psychobiological effects of trauma to a panoply of trauma treatments at the individual and community levels.
We discuss:
- Her challenging childhood as a carer
- Working with assault survivors
- Trauma-informed sports
- Psychedelics and integration
- The psychobiology of trauma
Links:
The Trauma Research Foundation - traumaresearchfoundation.org/
The New School Trauma and Affective Psychophysiology Lab - www.dandreatraumalab.com/
Chapters:
00:02:00 - Grounded in Personal and Family Background
00:06:53 - Early Life and Experience in the Midwest
00:13:30 - The Compelling Paradox of Trauma
00:19:51 - Partners in Co-Creating the Shape of Your Adventure
00:25:59 - The Therapy of Everyday Experiences
00:32:03 - The Power of Writing for Healing
00:38:39 - Integration of Implicit and Explicit Memory through Writing and Yoga
00:44:39 - The Importance of Immediate Positive Experience in Yoga
00:50:35 - Regulating Self in Yoga
00:56:47 - The Role of Vagal Tone in Facial Expressivity and Health
01:09:35 - Incorporating Spirituality in Trauma Research