Gabby Bernstein on Happy Days: From Trauma to Freedom and Inner Peace

Episode Highlights With Gabby Bernstein How she learned how to ride a unicycle! What inspired her current work and her most recent book Why there is a tendency to minimize trauma or compare it to others How to use things like somatic therapies and IFS to process and release trauma Trauma is the inability to be present What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help Practices to help regulate your nervous system if you’ve experienced trauma Her mental health first aid kit and how to use these tools Maternal mental health tools and why as moms, it is so important to take care of our own mental health Why she's trying to break the stigma of medication for mental health when needed Her journey with postpartum depression and how she moved past it What it means to reparent yourself and how this can benefit your children Resources We Mention Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain