Living & Thriving With Pain of Loss That Will Never Go Away w/ Neurosurgeon Lee Warren

About this episode

The episode explores the pain of loss and how to thrive despite it, featuring neurosurgeon Lee Warren's personal and professional insights.

The concept of trauma has gotten more focus than ever, as of late, it seems. But I feel much of what gets labeled trauma is the pain of loss. Losses we don’t know how to, or maybe never will, reconcile. I don’t claim having trauma in my life, but I have loss that I don’t think I’ll ever get over. I don’t want to minimize trauma at all, but I feel even more people resonate with the concept of loss. Even if it stems from a tragic trauma. And what I’ve been considering is some losses I don’t expect or even intend to “get over.” They are now a part of me. And, I want to thrive in my life anyway. My guest knows much about this, not only from his own life, but with experience with so, so many people. Lee Warren is a neurosurgeon. Every day he is dealing with people who may lose some of their cognitive abilities, or their lives. And he deals with their loved ones who are losing someone significant in their lives. This is Lee’s life. In addition, Lee knows what I’ll call straight-up, big T Trauma. On August 20, 2013, his nineteen-year-old son Mitch died of multiple stab wounds to the neck. Mitch’s best friend died along with him with one stab wound. Whether the knife used to kill Mitch…

People in this episode

Host: Kevin Miller

Guest: Lee Warren

Topics covered

• loss
• trauma
• grief
• neurosurgery
• thriving
• mental health

Keywords

• loss
• trauma
• grief
• neurosurgeon
• mental health
• thriving
• Mitch Warren

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Organizations: YAP Media

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