The School of Resilience
with Dr. Maria Bargeman
The human spirit is inherently resilient. But learning how to foster resilience, especially if you are in the midst of your dark night of the soul, can feel unattainable. The question isn't if you can become resilient, it is how. Join the School of Resilience and learn how you can cultivate the nuanced wisdom of resilience for whatever life throws at you.
Season 1 . Episode 4
Tune in to this episode to hear Maria's story of her own journey toward resilience and how your story can be one of full healing.
The School of Resilience
with Dr. Maria Bargeman
The human spirit is inherently resilient. But learning how to foster resilience, especially if you are in the midst of your dark night of the soul, can feel unattainable. The question isn't if you can become resilient, it is how. Join the School of Resilience and learn how you can cultivate the nuanced wisdom of resilience for whatever life throws at you.
Season 1 . Episode 4
Tune in to this episode to hear Maria's story of her own journey toward resilience and how your story can be one of full healing.
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Breaking the Barriers to Healing: Understanding and Reframing Trauma Narrative
Breaking the Barriers to Healing: Understanding and Reframing Trauma Narrative
In this powerful episode of The School of Resilience, Dr. Maria Bargeman delves into the common belief that full healing from trauma is impossible. She discusses the origins of this mindset, often rooted in environmental influences and past experiences, such as messages from clinicians, group therapy dynamics, and personal histories of emotional pain. Dr. Bargeman emphasizes how these factors can shape a person’s belief that healing isn’t achievable, especially when reinforced by authority figures or repeated exposure to narratives of ongoing struggle.
Dr. Bargeman explains that beliefs about our inability to heal often serve a protective function, shielding us from the repeated heartbreak of failed attempts at recovery. Some individuals may also cling to their identity as someone who suffers because it feels familiar and safe. This attachment to a painful narrative can feel necessary to preserve the validity of their past experiences, making the idea of healing seem like an erasure of what they’ve endured. Dr. Bargeman compassionately addresses how these beliefs, while understandable, can keep individuals stuck in a cycle of suffering.
As the episode progresses, Dr. Bargeman encourages listeners to gently untangle their sense of self from their painful experiences, recognizing that holding onto the past doesn’t change it but does impact their present and future. She highlights the importance of validating these beliefs with compassion rather than dismissing them outright. Through understanding and reframing our origin stories, we can start to cultivate a new narrative of hope and healing. Dr. Maria Bargeman, a seasoned trauma recovery specialist, is dedicated to empowering individuals to reclaim their lives. Learn more about her work at mariabargeman.com.
Takeaways
Beliefs About Healing: The belief that full healing from trauma is impossible often stems from environmental influences and past experiences, reinforced by authority figures and exposure to negative narratives.
Protective Identity: Many hold onto the belief they cannot heal because it serves as a protective mechanism, offering a sense of safety and validation for their past, even if it keeps them stuck in suffering.
Path to Reframing: Dr. Maria Bargeman advocates for gently validating and reframing these beliefs with compassion, creating emotional distance from past experiences to allow for a new, hopeful narrative of healing and empowerment.
Hope for full healing is ahead of you
Maria's mission is to equip you on a journey toward full freedom and healing. This podcast is a step in that direction to give you the knowledge and resources you need to take those next steps. Tune in today and step into your resilience.
There is no emotional wound too big or too small that you cannot fully heal from.
Maria's mission is to equip you on your journey toward full freedom and lasting healing. This podcast is a step in that direction to give you the knowledge and resources you need to get unstuck and fully inhabit the life you really want to live. Because you don’t have to live in pain anymore. You deserve to experience full healing. Tune in today and step into your resilience.
"You can get through this. I firmly believe that all trauma, and I really do mean all trauma, is not just treatable but it is 100% curable. That this doesn't need to define you, that you don't need to be impacted by this and stay trapped in the past and paralyzed and suffering for the rest of your life, but there is a way to move forward.
There is a way to fully heal, and you are capable of that."
-Dr. Maria Bargeman
Dr. Maria Bargeman's Mission: To revolutionize trauma care because there is a better way and every trauma-affected individual deserves to move past surviving into fully thriving
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