Understanding the Neurobiology of Trauma with Lisa and Nova Browing Rutherford
Many of us hear the word “trauma” used. But what is trauma? How does it impact us? In this episode, we are joined by two brilliant mental health workers: Lisa and Nova Browning Rutherford to understand trauma and how to affects us after sexual assault. With Lisa, we learn about how trauma shows up in our brains, bodies and nervous systems; with Nova, we talk about the impacts of trauma on our daily life. It’s a heady but gentle exploration of the impact of harm and how we can attend to it.
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Although there are no descriptions of sexual violence in this podcast series, any conversation about sexual violence can bring up big feelings and be hard to hear.
Listen in a way that feels safer for you. You get to choose.
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine
“Trauma can create such rigidity within us, within our thoughts and our emotions, in the ways our nervous systems respond. And when I thinking of exhaling, I just think of the capacity of our bodies to release and let go and connect with our natural abilities to do that and to be flexible. And so it's just sometimes what healing involves is just allowing that natural intelligence to happen because it is it is there. ”
- Lisa
About Our Guests:
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Since 2009, Nova Browning Rutherford has lectured on the effective actions leaders in the academic, public, and private sectors can take to integrate and promote well-being and equity at work.
Today, Nova serves as a Leadership Development Facilitator in the tech sector. By speaking authentically to the unpolished leadership process, Nova makes it safe for leaders to tell it like it is and draws decision-makers in to focus on solutions and integrate self-care into the calendar as a requirement of optimal performance.
This award-winning speaker has been featured in The Huffington Post, The OWN Network, and national print, online, and TV media outlets.
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Lisa is an Indigenous counsellor that specializes in working with survivors of gender-based violence. She has a deep knowledge of attending to the impacts of trauma.
