This episode of the Reboots Podcast is about trauma - "Big T Trauma" and "Little T trauma."

Even "Little T" trauma can be devastating.

My dear friend Ada Floyd and I talk about:

• How she's continually learning to process traumas like sexual abuse and the loss of her twin boys Keeton and Kaden.
• Her role as a therapist in helping her clients heal from trauma.
• And EMDR, which is a therapeutic approach that can help us process trauma by rewiring neurological pathways that have been stuck because of the trauma we've endured.

If you're interested in learning more about Ada Floyd, check out her professional bio.

If you'd like to learn more about her personal story, listen to Reboots Episode R008.

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is a best-selling author who has been read by - get this - more than 100 million humans.

His work is featured regularly in Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Psychology Today and other well-known publications and his new book Personality Isn't Permanent debunks the multi-billion dollar personality profile industry as something of an excuse for believing we are stuck with who we are.

In this episode, Ben and I talk about:

• Personal growth and change as science
• How the concepts American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr so eloquently expressed in his famous Serenity Prayer apply to the science of change
• The role journaling plays in helping us make peace with our past selves and instruct our future selves.

I’m grateful for Ben's time and his work that focuses on the science of change.

Learn more about Personality Isn't Permanent.

Follow Ben's work.

30 Days of Gratitude

Welcome to a brand new season of the Reboots Podcast!

This summer is all about arriving at reasonable happiness - even in the midst of great hardship and the chaos that surrounds so many of us now.

How is that possible?

Through the now-common prayer in which we ask for help in accepting the things we cannot change, and having the courage to change what we can.

There's a constellation of topics surrounding change navigation, like mental health, behavioral science, the 12 steps of recovery, and gratitude.

We're kicking off the 2020 season of episodes with Dr. Benjamin Hardy - an organizational psychologist and writer. He shares insights into the hope of changing ourselves and debunks popular personality studies that he believes tend to keep us stuck where we are instead of believing we can change who we are.

Can't wait to share this episode and much more with you.

Here's the link to 15 Things I've Learned About Navigating Change.

Check out our 30-days of gratitude - COVID-19 edition.