014 | The Power of Having Communal Support for Complex Trauma Recovery with Jess B
Jess B.—former biomedical researcher, craft brewery logistics manager, and traumatized mess—is the force behind the proudly named Traumatized Motherfuckers community, a support group for complex trauma recovery born from her blog and podcast of the same name. Blending her background in science with experiential snark, Jess uses research, personal insight, communal spirit, and honest vulnerability (sans toxic positivity) in her work to help educate and support others through complex trauma and recovery.
Jess joins me today to discuss how her effort to understand her childhood trauma led her to find a community of people who support each other through their healing journeys. She shares how she experienced trauma throughout her youth and explains how the effects of trauma endured and progressed well into her adulthood. She describes how society conditions people to accept abuse and how we feed that cycle of abuse that traumatizes us. She also highlights how she spent many years thinking that the repercussions of her trauma were permanent and underscores how healing is possible through professional and communal support.
“People aren’t alone in feeling alone, and it doesn’t have to be that way forever. There are answers out there, and there are people who understand.”
- Jess B
This week on the Trauma Hiders Club Podcast:
Monsters under our beds and why Jess decided to focus on trauma
Jess’s “pandemic baby” and how writing about her trauma transformed into a podcast and a community
Her experiences with trauma throughout her upbringing
How and why adulthood is a trauma trigger point for many people
Job and workplace-related abuse and trauma
The way society grooms us to accept abuse and how it impacts our families
How Jess looks at trauma in her blog and podcast
Her reintegration practice and experiment in peace
How having a community and a dog with special needs helped Jess through her healing journey
Honor thy boundaries, honor thy safety
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