Mary Firestone on Trusting the Dawn
Description:
Mary Firestone joins Health Gig to discuss her book Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma. We speak about the traumatic events leading to Mary’s own path of healing. Through her background in clinical psychology, she shares wisdom with others in order to help find joy. Listen in as we discuss the fascinating journey of Trusting the Dawn.
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Quotes:
“‘Trusting the Dawn’ is also is a metaphor for when we're in the darkness after trauma; to know that it will get light again.” Mary Firestone
“You do not have to stay stuck in that trauma loop, which can happen in the brain. We can get stuck in the fight or flight response, so everything is a potential threat.” Mary Firestone
“A lot of the book is wanting to offer healing and hope and love and support to people that need it.” Mary Firestone
Show Notes:
Mary Firestone: I really wanted other trauma survivors to know that you don't need to be cursed by this label of PTSD, that in fact, there is beauty and light.
Mary Firestone: I have my background, as I mentioned, and my master's in clinical psych and my sister Lucy and I have had a company for a decade now where we produce and curate women's retreats.
Mary Firestone: I was living in Montecito at the time. We'd bought this 1890s farmhouse, and it was beautiful.
Mary Firestone: I could see literally there was this tidal wave of mud coming at a record speed directly towards us.
Mary Firestone: I thought, you know, for many hours that it was the apocalypse, seriously, that everything was gone. That everybody I knew was dead. And that I was imminently going to be the next one.
Mary Firestone: So trauma really for me, and I define it in the book, too. It's any time that our mortality is brought right up to us.
Mary Firestone: I experienced nightmares, increased anxiety, panic attacks, sleeplessness, digestion issues.
Mary Firestone: Through healing, we can move through the PTSD into the post-traumatic growth, which is really why I wanted to write the book.
Mary Firestone: EMDR is a great way to start to break those traumatic loops that can be done with a therapist.
Mary Firestone: Aromatherapy is a good way to just receive.
Mary Firestone: I also had such a cathartic, healing experience doing ketamine therapy.
Mary Firestone: If you're interested in doing this kind of work, I would really recommend working with a psychiatrist.
Mary Firestone: I emphasize that in the book that certain modalities might be right at different times in your healing.
Mary Firestone: You survived because you have to do this work like you're meant to go out and help other people through their dark nights of the soul.
Mary Firestone: There's no hierarchy in trauma. Everyone's trauma is the worst because it happened to them.
Mary Firestone: Our choice is do we stay in victimhood or do we move through it?
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