What If Your Team Is Bleeding In Silence

The Caribbean Workplace Wellness Channel · Sep 17, 2026 · 19m · transcript

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Your brain doesn’t care that it’s “just work.” When you get publicly embarrassed, excluded, or hit with a sarcastic comment, the nervous system can react as if you’ve been physically injured and that changes everything about performance, leadership, and team culture.

We dig into research from clinical and organizational psychology on social threat at work, including fMRI findings that show the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC) lighting up during social exclusion, the same circuitry involved in physical pain. From there, we trace the chain reaction: DACC signals danger…