Cultivating Resiliency, Community, and Flexibility: An Interview with Bethany Laurie Resiliency Reimagined

Bethany Laurie is a facilitator at the Center for Strength, and is an impacted community member as her children were at school during a shooting in 2019.  Bethany shares how her views related to trauma recovery have evolved following 2019, and things that have helped both herself and her family in their recovery journey.  

Bethany discusses how community decreases feelings of isolation and how her partnership with the Center for Strength has impacted community for herself.  Bethany discusses empowerment in understanding more about the impact of trauma through reading, and facilitating groups based on The Body Keeps the Score, and how this has helped shape her understanding of recovery as a non-linear process and challenged the idea of "getting over" traumatic events.  She discusses how mindfulness and exercise has impacted her, while highlighting that differences in trauma recovery journeys, and the things that help people can be as unique as they are. 

Check out our calendar on Center4Strength.org to learn more about the events discussed in the episode and to look into joining an upcoming book club or art activity Bethany is facilitating.