Childhood Trauma, The Cost Of Living In Fear: Special Guest Kari O'Driscoll Flip The Script With Emma

This season we are diving head first into Trauma. How does Trauma show up in our lives when we least expect it, and how can we identify the warning signs? How does unhealed trauma manifest itself as self sabotage, lack of ambition, fear of failure and success! Let's find out!



Meet Kari!

I am a writer and founder of The SELF Project, an organization dedicated to enhancing the social-emotional health of adolescents and building stronger communities. My work has been published in Ms. Magazine, Mommyish, ParentMap, Healthline and other outlets and I am the author of One Teenager at a Time: Developing Critical Thinking and Self Awareness in Adolescents and a memoir entitled Truth Has a Different Shape. My book Happy, Healthy Teens: Why Focusing on Relationship Works is due out from Rowman & Littlefield in January 2022.



In what ways has Trauma impacted you in your life? 

Childhood trauma set the stage for me to become a caregiver at an early age and really informed the way that I made decisions for decades. Not only did I become someone who felt as though I needed to be on alert all the time, but I was unable to trust anyone else to really keep me safe emotionally or physically. When I became a mother, shadows of that trauma chased me as I exhausted myself trying to keep my children safe from the kind of experiences I'd had and I eventually fell in to a deep depression. I spent years battling depression and anxiety and replaying traumas in my head.





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