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.
Latest Episodes
The Four A's Process for Emotional Healing
The Four A's Process for Emotional Healing
In this episode of The School of Resilience, Dr. Maria Bargeman introduces the "Four A's" strategy, a powerful process for navigating emotional hijacking and regaining control over unhelpful emotional patterns. The episode delves into how emotional wounds from the past can hijack the present and explores how awareness, allowance, affection, and action can help disrupt these cycles. Dr. Bargeman emphasizes the importance of recognizing our emotions, allowing them to exist without judgment, and responding with compassion before taking action to understand the root of the emotional trigger.
Dr. Bargeman references the work of Dr. Daniel Siegel and expands on his concept of "name it to tame it," arguing that while naming emotions is crucial, healing can only happen through conscious awareness. She walks listeners through each of the Four A's in detail, explaining how bringing awareness to emotional triggers, allowing feelings to exist, showing affection towards oneself, and finally taking action are vital steps toward emotional healing.
The episode concludes with practical advice on how to implement the Four A's in real-life situations. Dr. Bargeman encourages listeners to practice journaling or recording their thoughts during emotionally charged moments as a way to gather data and better understand their emotional patterns. Over time, this practice helps identify emotional triggers and enables individuals to provide themselves with the care and understanding needed to heal.
Takeaways
The Four A’s Process: Dr. Maria Bargeman introduces a four-step process—Awareness, Allowance, Affection, and Action—that helps individuals manage emotional hijacking and build healthier emotional responses.
Awareness and Self-Compassion: Recognizing emotional triggers and responding to them with kindness and affection is a key component of healing. Allowing emotions to exist without judgment can lead to more conscious and intentional actions.
Practical Tips for Healing: Journaling or recording audio notes during emotionally charged moments helps gather data on emotional patterns. This practice, combined with the Four A’s, aids in emotional healing and in understanding one’s triggers, leading to a more resilient mindset.
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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