From the course: Navigating Personal Trauma and Triggers at Work

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Train your thoughts to be more flexible

Train your thoughts to be more flexible

From the course: Navigating Personal Trauma and Triggers at Work

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Train your thoughts to be more flexible

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- One of the biggest consequences of suffering a traumatic experience comes in the form of inflexible thinking. Traumatic incidents can freeze our thoughts in place and make it so that our thinking remains frozen. What does this mean exactly? Well, when we suffer a traumatic experience, our minds tend to overestimate threats in our environment, which means that we will be facing new situations, like a conversation with a supervisor or a colleague, with the same threat response. Remember Lolita's trigger response to fawn and people please in order to be liked? Well, her internal dialogue was stuck in a cycle. She believed and thought that she could not produce good work. This was a thought that remained etched in her mind for decades, a thought that got pre-programmed early in childhood was now becoming the ongoing thought loop of her mind, and when presented with new situations, like when she was presented with a supportive team that is able to see her genius, she isn't able to…

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