Decode Your Trauma
With Alex Howard
What is Trauma?
The E.C.H.O Model of Trauma
• Events
• Context
• Homeostatic Shift
• Outcomes
The Events of Trauma
• Overt VS Covert
• One off VS Multiple
• Childhood VS Adulthood
Why Context is Everything
• Two people can experience the same EVENTS, but have different outcomes
• Our emotional resilience is determined by our 3 core emotional needs being met
If these neds are met, We can handle most of what life throws at us
As adults, we are no longer dependent upon others, we can learn to cultivate these resources and capacities inside of us
The E.C.H.O Model of Trauma
• Events
• Context
• Homeostatic Shift
• Outcomes
Homeostatic Changes
• The impacts of a maladaptive stress response
• For our body to heal, we have to be in a healing state
Maladaptive Stres Response is. . .
A chronic state of sympathetic nervous system activation when in a safe environment
Acute Stres Chronic Stres vs
The E.C.H.O Model of Trauma
• Events
• Context
• Homeostatic Shift
• Outcomes
The Outcome of Trauma
• We normalise to a world which is not healthy or optimum
• We don’t develop the 3 core emotional needs we need to heal
Outcomes
• Anxiety
• Relationships
• Sleep
• Addiction
• Healthy
• Depression
What is posible with trauma healing?