Why Small "t" Traumas Matter & How They Impact Our Lives with Dr. Meg Arroll

On this week’s episode of Enneagram IRL, we meet with Dr. Meg Arroll (PhD, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS, FHEA, MISCPAccred), a chartered psychologist, scientist and author with a specialist focus on behavioural psychology related to health and wellness, invisible/misunderstood illness and everyday trauma. Dr Meg has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including British Medical Journal (Open) and Medical Hypotheses, in addition to seven mainstream books for the public on topics ranging from chronic fatigue to emotional eating. Dr Meg works on a 1-2-1 basis with individuals, in corporate settings to improve health and performance and as an advisor to brands and the media. As a regular contributor to commercial publications such as The Daily Mail and Psychologies magazine, Dr Meg translates complex scientific theories and research for public dissemination.

Meg has held academic positions at a number of universities and is currently an assessor for the British Psychological Society’s chartered route in coaching psychology. She’s busy promoting her most recent book Tiny Traumas around the world, across 33 publication territories including the UK, USA, throughout Europe, South America, Asia and Australasia and splits her time between London and the southern states of the US.

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Here are the key takeaways:

Breaking down “little T” trauma
Why “Keep Calm and Carry On” isn’t helpful
Misconceptions about tiny T trauma
Meg’s Triple A approach: Awareness, Acceptance, Action
Benefits of emotional writing
What is our “psychological immune system?”
Meg’s response to “Is everything just trauma nowadays?”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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