Fostering Resilience, Finding Community and Thriving with Karen Robinson

<p>What if you could change your life by embracing trauma therapy? </p><p>In this episode of From Survivor to Thriver, we sat down with Karen Robinson to delve into trauma recovery and resilience.  We explore the complexities of dissociation, grounding techniques, and the power of validation.</p><p>Karen also shares her insights on retraining the brain, self-care, and the unexpected benefits of whispering to de-escalate arguments.</p><p>Karen Robinson is a service-driven social worker, therapist, and coach with 24 years of clinical experience. Karen received both her BSW and MSW from the University of Maine, where she is originally from. She is a genuine, authentic, compassionate provider. Her specialties are trauma recovery, anxiety, and depression. </p><p>Heal Thrive Dream, her mother-daughter company, that includes a wide range of services and products for women recovering from trauma. </p><p>They offer holistic therapy, coaching, virtual group coaching memberships, community service, courses, planners, journals, books, inspirational products, and workbooks. They are a one-stop shop for women who are ready to fire their boss as we offer touchless e-commerce agencies and a full-service digital agency to assist with websites, logos, social media management, SEO, etc.</p><p>Lastly, they teach survivors how to explore relationships and affiliate marketing as several streams of revenue will set them up for the best chance of success in every aspect of their lives.  </p><p>In today’s episode we cover: </p><ul><li>The reason Karen decided to work with trauma survivors </li><li>Karen’s holistic approach to teaching and practicing resiliency</li><li>The right time for trauma therapy </li><li>The connection between substance abuse and trauma</li><li>The different things that can cause trauma in your life </li><li>What dissociation is and grounding techniques that help </li><li>What a self-care kit is and what can be put in it</li><li>Why the word “relax” is so triggering and de-escalating words to use instead</li></ul><