Ep. 55 Childhood Trauma, Resilience, and the Five Rs of Healing with Kathleen Harnish McKune and Karen Dixon
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Angie Berrett discusses childhood trauma and resilience with sisters Kathleen Harnish McKune and Karen Dixon, exploring the neuroscience of trauma and its effects on health and survival patterns.
Show Notes: In this powerful episode of Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy, host Angie Berrett sits down with sisters Kathleen Harnish McKune and Karen Dixon, trauma survivors, authors, and founders of the nonprofit Remarkably Resilient. Kathleen and Karen share how discovering the neuroscience of trauma later in life transformed their understanding of childhood abuse, chronic health challenges, and long held survival patterns. Together, they explore how trauma responses such as fight, flight, ...
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