17: Trauma
According to the University of Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), trauma is "the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event."
Sometimes we don't even realize that our emotional responses to certain situations at work are rooted in our own trauma. Yesterday's distressing event is today's emotional workday overwhelm.
Trauma isn't an explanation for every difficult work experience. Sometimes stressful situations at work are just . . . stressful, not clues to some hidden distress in our earlier life.
But trauma *is* an explanation for…
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