How "Core Trauma" Is Affecting Your Every Decision

About this Video

• Video Title: How "Core Trauma" Is Affecting Your Every Decision
• Channel: HealthyGamerGG
• Speakers: Dr. K
• Duration: 00:36:52

Introduction

This video discusses core trauma, differentiating it from PTSD. Dr. K explains how early childhood trauma shapes personality, impacting perception, internal reactions, and behavior. The video uses a voicemail from a viewer as a case study to illustrate the effects of core trauma and offers strategies for healing.

Key Takeaways

1. Core Trauma vs. PTSD: Core trauma is not damage to a pre-existing healthy structure (like in PTSD), but rather a malformed foundational structure of the self resulting from early childhood experiences.
2. Core Trauma's Impact: Core trauma fundamentally alters perception, leading to distorted interpretations of situations and a survival-oriented response characterized by inaction, dissociation, and an inability to self-sympathize.
3. Healing Core Trauma: Traditional trauma healing methods like self-compassion may not work. The focus should shift from pursuing "good" feelings and avoiding "bad" ones to embracing discomfort and seeking "emotionally corrective experiences." These experiences might feel uncomfortable at first but provide crucial new data that reshapes the individual's internal landscape.
4. The Role of Discomfort: Individuals with core trauma are often comfortable with negativity and uncomfortable with positivity. Healing involves actively seeking discomfort, which allows for neural rewiring and the development of new coping mechanisms.
5. Step-by-Step Healing: Dr. K emphasizes a step-by-step process of healing that involves physiological rewiring, emotional regulation, cognitive restructuring, and identity reformation. This process is outlined in his trauma guide.