Joseph Nguyen

And it's not the classic of, oh, I don't want to go to this place because it triggers a flashback, or I don't want to see this person because it will trigger a nightmare. It's the avoidance of, I don't want to deal with my pain, so I'm just going to busy myself. And I see this a lot, not just in myself, but in other people who've come from scarcity. Let's just work, work to the bone.

Even if we have enough in storage, it could all be taken away at any point. And a lot of people... who are high functioning, they have that scarcity trauma. They never wanna be in a position of bankruptcy again. They never wanna be in a position of needing things again. And they collect money, they collect resource, and they collect degrees.

Even if we have enough in storage, it could all be taken away at any point. And a lot of people... who are high functioning, they have that scarcity trauma. They never wanna be in a position of bankruptcy again. They never wanna be in a position of needing things again. And they collect money, they collect resource, and they collect degrees.

Even if we have enough in storage, it could all be taken away at any point. And a lot of people... who are high functioning, they have that scarcity trauma. They never wanna be in a position of bankruptcy again. They never wanna be in a position of needing things again. And they collect money, they collect resource, and they collect degrees.

You can see above me, I have so many degrees, I haven't even hung them. Some of them are in the cabinets. And I see this a lot with people who have similar backgrounds to my own. They'll continue collecting the accolades, but then it's never enough. And I found myself

You can see above me, I have so many degrees, I haven't even hung them. Some of them are in the cabinets. And I see this a lot with people who have similar backgrounds to my own. They'll continue collecting the accolades, but then it's never enough. And I found myself

You can see above me, I have so many degrees, I haven't even hung them. Some of them are in the cabinets. And I see this a lot with people who have similar backgrounds to my own. They'll continue collecting the accolades, but then it's never enough. And I found myself

realizing that this was happening to me when i first started therapy and my therapist pointed out this busying why do you have to be so busy why do you have to be collecting all these accolades and it wasn't a one-stop healing like i didn't go to therapy figure it out and then healed it was something that peaks and ebbs and flows in my life i go through these patterns of

realizing that this was happening to me when i first started therapy and my therapist pointed out this busying why do you have to be so busy why do you have to be collecting all these accolades and it wasn't a one-stop healing like i didn't go to therapy figure it out and then healed it was something that peaks and ebbs and flows in my life i go through these patterns of

realizing that this was happening to me when i first started therapy and my therapist pointed out this busying why do you have to be so busy why do you have to be collecting all these accolades and it wasn't a one-stop healing like i didn't go to therapy figure it out and then healed it was something that peaks and ebbs and flows in my life i go through these patterns of

overworking and then having to be like oh my gosh i have to be more present and stay still and then going back to that so even as a board certified psychiatrist and researcher i have to still practice tools to remind myself to slow down and when i started creating content around this People from all over the world would chime in. Oh, my grandma's Polish. And they did this because of the war.

overworking and then having to be like oh my gosh i have to be more present and stay still and then going back to that so even as a board certified psychiatrist and researcher i have to still practice tools to remind myself to slow down and when i started creating content around this People from all over the world would chime in. Oh, my grandma's Polish. And they did this because of the war.

overworking and then having to be like oh my gosh i have to be more present and stay still and then going back to that so even as a board certified psychiatrist and researcher i have to still practice tools to remind myself to slow down and when i started creating content around this People from all over the world would chime in. Oh, my grandma's Polish. And they did this because of the war.

And I still do these things. And not just the busying, but also the behaviors like collecting things. Sometimes I look in my drawer and I'm like, well, I don't need all these ketchup packages. I'm not going to eat them. But we collect things in our lives. We create clutter. That actually creates stress. It's not just environmentally conscious, right?

And I still do these things. And not just the busying, but also the behaviors like collecting things. Sometimes I look in my drawer and I'm like, well, I don't need all these ketchup packages. I'm not going to eat them. But we collect things in our lives. We create clutter. That actually creates stress. It's not just environmentally conscious, right?

And I still do these things. And not just the busying, but also the behaviors like collecting things. Sometimes I look in my drawer and I'm like, well, I don't need all these ketchup packages. I'm not going to eat them. But we collect things in our lives. We create clutter. That actually creates stress. It's not just environmentally conscious, right?

It's not like you're hoarding Tupperware from takeout because you want to save the environment. No, because some of that takeout container has holes in it. It's this hoarding mechanism is a way to cope with this trauma of not having. And when I talk about this at public speaking engagements, people will come up to me and say, oh, my grandpa was a farmer.

It's not like you're hoarding Tupperware from takeout because you want to save the environment. No, because some of that takeout container has holes in it. It's this hoarding mechanism is a way to cope with this trauma of not having. And when I talk about this at public speaking engagements, people will come up to me and say, oh, my grandpa was a farmer.

It's not like you're hoarding Tupperware from takeout because you want to save the environment. No, because some of that takeout container has holes in it. It's this hoarding mechanism is a way to cope with this trauma of not having. And when I talk about this at public speaking engagements, people will come up to me and say, oh, my grandpa was a farmer.

And I grew up with having a comfortable life, but some of those behaviors from when he was a farmer, they've trickled down. Like we keep old food sometimes because we don't even know what, because in his day, the crop, he was dependent on the weather and whether or not he'd have a good season. So they'd just hold on to old foods.