Understanding Protectors
Gabby explores the concept of protectors in the context of trauma, highlighting how exiled parts of ourselves—often the young, traumatized inner child—struggle to process overwhelming feelings. She distinguishes between two types of protectors: managers and firefighters, focusing on managers who often manifest as anxiety and vigilance. By naming her own managers, she illustrates how these protective mechanisms can serve as a response to past trauma, ultimately influencing behavior and emotional well-being.In this clip
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Related Questions
Is it fair to say that the brain can build on traumatic memories, preventing a person from taking actions that could allow them to heal themselves, as discussed in the episode #427: Vengeance is Grief in Disguise: Letting Go, Moving Forward & Opening Your Heart to Joy Again and the clip Choosing Change? Specifically, how does this relate to the episodes "Something Scary Happened The Other Day and I Wanted To Talk To You About It" and "478: Are you metabolizing your trauma?" with Will Cole, D.C.?
For example, I produced a huge activation, which was the largest success of my career, that opened on my mother's birthday. Two weeks later, she died in her sleep. Now, when I attempt to work on large, challenging projects like this one, I can start the process creatively but have great trouble following through on distributing it to people who could help me execute it. Is that a fair analysis of how my mind is perceiving my actions as leading to a similar tragic outcome?
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?