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Podcast: Transforming Trauma
Episode: Lostness, Trauma and Stories of Transformation with Bayo Akomolafe
Description: Trained in clinical psychology, Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D. now works as an author, speaker, and professor. He is recognized worldwide for his thoughtful and unconventional take on global crises, trauma and social change. Bayo starts off by sharing a proverb from his Yoruba people: "In order to find your way, you must become lost". This leads to an invitation to being in the world in a different way. He offers an alternative, non-pathologizing way to think about trauma and our adaptations to it. Instead of pathologizing what we are afraid of, he invites us to "lean into th...