Everyday Trauma

Everyday Traumas offers a simple 8-week, science-based method to overcome trauma from neuroscientist professor Tracey Shors. Contrary to long-held belief, trauma and PTSD are not just caused by exposure to a single extreme event, such as war, terrorism, major injury or violent assault. The cumulative effect of everyday stressors, such as a difficult childhood, bereavement, bullying, childbirth, redundancy, long-term caregiving, divorce and poverty, can all have an equally significant impact on our physical and mental well-being and manifest themselves as trauma. Tracey Shors's simple yet effective three-step method is designed to help you process any kind of personal trauma, extreme or ostensibly more minor and reverse the symptoms of PTSD. The beauty of her method lies in its simplicity and she is confident it will help anyone who puts in the time over eight weeks (one hour, twice a week). In scientific studies, participants who followed her method reported reduced nagging thoughts about the past and demonstrated lower levels of anxiety and depression. Her approach which is based on thirty years of her studying how stress and trauma affect the brain, combines meditation, walking and aerobic exercise or, as she puts it, you need to Sit, Stand and Sweat.