85 I How Trauma Shows Up in Primary Care Visits — A Conversation on Bodies, Healing, and Presence

What happens when three family physicians sit down and get honest about what's missing in the care we provide?

In this conversation, I'm joined by Dr. Rachel Weiner and Dr. Sophia Malik to explore why so many of our patients are carrying unprocessed trauma in their bodies — and why most of us were never given the tools to address it. We talk about Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), Compassionate Inquiry®, the nervous system, and what it actually looks like to bring body-based awareness into a 15-minute primary care visit.

We also get personal about our own journeys with embodiment, dissociation, therapy, and the uncomfortable question of why we became physicians in the first place.

This conversation is for any clinician who has ever sat with a patient and felt like something deeper was going on, but didn't know what to do next.

Resources mentioned: Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) -https://traumahealing.org/ -https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/

Compassionate Inquiry® (CI) -https://compassionateinquiry.com/en/ -https://drgabormate.com/

The Wheel of Consent® -https://www.schoolofconsent.org/https://www.wheelofconsent.org/thebook

Books -The Anticipatory Corpse: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268022273... -Writings for a Liberation Psychology: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978... -Fatal Invention: https://thenewpress.org/books/fatal-i... -Nurturing Resilience: https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/sh... -The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo... -Healing Trauma by Peter Levine: https://us.macmillan.com/books/978159... -My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem: https://centralrecoverypress.com/prod...

Connect: -Healthcare for Humans podcast: https://www.healthcareforhumans.org/