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Podcast: Transforming Trauma
Episode: Resolving Cultural and Historical Trauma with Iya Affo
Description: Iya Affo is a culturalist and historical trauma specialist. She has traveled to more than 25 countries and lived a life dedicated to cultivating love and inclusivity, facilitating decolonization, and healing indigenous people. Iya's work focuses on a cultural and neurobiological perspective of historical trauma, and she presents the question, "What happened in the past, and how does that manifest in people today?"Â Exploring cultural expressions historically used to manage adversity, Iya highlights a White Mountain Apache dance performed as a debriefing by warriors returning home. "That's what they did to restore their neurological regulation before they rejoin t...