You’re Not Broken, You Adapted: Healing Childhood Trauma at Any Age with Barb Varcl Smith
What if the strength everyone admires in you is really a survival pattern?
Barb Varcl Smith is a trauma recovery educator, therapist, and speaker who grew up in Prague under communist Czechoslovakia and trained as an engineer before becoming a therapist. She joins Jeannie to explain fake resilience, the Ascendance Method, and why healing childhood trauma is possible at any age.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
What is fake resilience?
Barb calls it the fifth trauma response, after fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. It's pushing through on willpower while numbing your emotions, and it often looks like success from…
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