How Do You Process Trauma That Isn’t Yours? | Dr. Thomas Hübl | Happiness | E529

How Do You Process Trauma That Isn’t Yours? | Dr. Thomas Hübl | Happiness | E529

From Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby by Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

June 11, 2026 · 1h 11m

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Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby discusses with Dr. Thomas Hübl the concept of processing trauma that may not originate from oneself and its implications on healing.

Have you ever felt like you are carrying something heavy that you cannot quite explain, something that does not even feel like it started with you? A few years ago I traced my own anxious drive back to grandparents I never met, people who were, in a real sense, being chased by wolves. It turns out a lot of what we call “my issues” was handed to us. And that makes it far more workable than it feels. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Thomas Hübl, the teacher and trauma-integration facilitator who co-wrote the new book Releasing Our Burdens with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the creator of Internal Family Systems. Thomas studies healing as one continuum that runs from the individual to the ancestral to the collective, and he joined me to explain why the thing you keep trying to fix about yourself may not have started with you, and what becomes possible when you stop fighting it and start to thaw it. In This Episode Why the thing you keep trying to fix about yourself may not have started with you, and what that changes The freezer metaphor that explains what trauma quietly costs you every single day Why Thomas calls trauma “a loan from the future,” and how the bill comes due What is…

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