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Podcast: The Light Inside
Episode: Recognizing Trauma Triggers: Understanding How Blind Spots Affect Emotional Reactivity with Joe Ryan
Description: Most of us have such psychological “blind spots,” aspects of our personalities that are obvious to everyone but ourselves. You can find the answers if you care to—or more accurately, if you dare to. This is the roughest mission you can undertake: a direct seek-and-destroy attack on your own pockets of denial.
Identifying your own blind spots is an exercise in paradox, because if you’re aware of a problem, it doesn’t count.
Our guest today, Joe Ryan, has been on a lifelong journey of overcoming trauma, shame, and the demons that plague him as a r...