Dr. Robyn Koslowitz
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Maybe you could exert enough force to perform CPR.
But if you're not cracking ribs, you're not restarting someone's heart.
I didn't have that kind of strength in my body back.
I probably weighed like 100 pounds soaking wet back then.
There was just no way I could have ever exerted enough force.
I knew that sort of intellectually in my 20s until I was in my mid 40s.
And my very good friend, who's a trauma nurse, pointed it out to me again.
Did I really believe it?
Yeah.
Perfectionism made me feel safe for a very long time, but it wasn't making me actually be safe.
And that's what the trauma app does.
It doesn't make us safer.
It makes us feel safer.
It's perceived safety, not actual safety.
And our brain does that.
It's what you should have been able to.
You should have done it better.
And sometimes there's nothing you can do.
You're just not going to work.
But there's something about those moments.