If you look functional on the outside but feel like you're running on survival mode underneath, this conversation was made for you. I sit down with Lauren Auer — trauma therapist, somatic practitioner, and the person behind the wildly popular Instagram @yourtraumatherapist_ — whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Time. Lauren specialises in EMDR, Brainspotting, IFS, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and she has a rare gift for making the most complex nervous system science feel like a conversation with a friend. Together we unpack what complex trauma actually looks like in high-functioning people, why your body is keeping score even when your mind insists everything is fine, and what healing really involves beyond just talking about it. Connect with Lauren:www.instagram.com/YourTraumaTherapist_steadfastcounseling.comhttps://substack.com/@yourtraumatherapistWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support:https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinayt.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinayt.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinayt.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinayt.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinayt.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinayt.com/resources CONNECT WITH ME:Follow me on Instagram:⁠ ⁠www.instagram.com/marina.y.t⁠⁠ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"Trauma isn't about the event. It's about how that individual person experienced it — and no two nervous systems are the same." — Lauren Auer"High achieving can absolutely be a trauma response. And when it has been, seeing it that way can be really destabilising — because it makes people ask, who am I without that?" — Lauren Auer"You can know exactly why you're triggered, understand all the research, and still feel every bit of it. Knowing doesn't make it go away. That's where talk therapy hits its limits." — Lauren Auer"Your body took over. That kid in the cafeteria logically knew he wasn't supposed to sit there. But his body had already decided. That's what survival mode actually looks like." — Lauren Auer"Trauma can be overwhelming intensity, sustained difficulty, or long-term scarcity of what you needed to thrive. Sometimes it's not what happened to you — it's what never did." — Lauren Auercomplex trauma, high functioning trauma, survival mode, somatic healing, trauma therapy, nervous system regulation, EMDR therapy, IFS parts work, brainspotting, high achiever burnout, trauma and the body, emotional suppression, people pleasing, inner child healing, trauma responses, attachment healing, embodiment, trauma informed therapy, deep within podcast, Lauren Auer, Marina Triner

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Transcript

Related