How trauma affects you at work, and what you can do about it - with Kelly Campbell

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#201: Kelly Campbell is a Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach for emerging and established leaders. She explains the different sources of trauma, how it can affect your work, and what you can do to heal your trauma.

What you’ll learn

• [02:01] Why Kelly became trauma specialised coach.
• [04:50] The trauma Kelly faced growing up.
• [06:31] Effective business characteristics that trauma creates.
• [07:37] How to identify burnout.
• [10:19] Unhealthy characteristics that are praised in a business context.
• [11:12] How companies should approach burnout.
• [12:49] What childhood trauma involves.
• [15:35] The compounding nature of trauma.
• [17:31] How to not internalise traumatic events.
• [20:45] How trauma presents itself in the workplace.
• [23:25] The importance of identifying underlying traumas.
• [26:20] The necessity of identifying the source of your traumas.
• [28:32] How to know you’ve successfully addressed your traumas.
• [30:30] How realistic healing your traumas is.
• [31:34] What you can do to heal trauma by yourself.
• [34:18] When to get external support for trauma.
• [35:20] The problems with talk therapy.
• [37:17] The type of practitioners that can help people with trauma.
• [41:26] What happens when you address your trauma.

Resources mentioned in this episode
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• CDC-Kaiser Permanente Study on adverse childhood experiences
• Bessel van der Kolk
• My Healing Menu

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:
https://changeworklife.com/how-trauma-affects-you-at-work-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

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