Welcome Back to The Stuffer Club: Trauma and Human Performance

Welcome Back to The Stuffer Club: Trauma and Human Performance 

This episode may be our best one of the season so far! This week Doc's Sarah and Alyse chat about everyone's elephant in the room: trauma. 

Human Performance Optimization teams and programs often have the honor of working with the most elite and highest of high performers in tactical. What makes or breaks these high performers? One word: trauma. 

This episode offers a variety of different views and discussion around trauma in human performance and what to do with it. We get deep about different unconventional or maybe less often thought of strategies to address trauma in the tactical and high performer setting, what microtraumas are and how they contribute to overall trauma, and are favorite: how to team integrate MSK and MH to intervene with holistic and effective coping techniques. We define mindful avoidance and how that allows tactical members to heal. 

Some take homes:

• 1 in 5 people exposed to trauma have PTSD as a result.
• 30% of those exposed to combat have some sort of psychological post traumatic affect. 
• Trauma needs to healed from mental health just as much as a broken bone needs to be healed for physical health. 
• Positive coping mechanisms are mental health's version of axillary crutches :)
• You can still have trauma responses up to 2 years after being removed from an environment with a toxic leader. 
• Fear avoidance = a type of proprioception 

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